"Christoph Jopp" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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Hello Harold,
I installed the new portable LO
(http://portableapps.com/apps/office/libreoffice_portable) on a USB
stick. When I try to run it, it complains that there is another copy
running. It seems that this is because OpenOffice's (non-portable)
Quickstarter is running on the machine. Of course, OOo's Quickstarter is
running for multiple users who happen to be logged on to the machine
(Win XP Pro) so, although I can kill mine, I can't kill the others.
Following your description, this is a behaviour of LibreOffice - so it
might be the wrong list you are asking on.
Is it right that a *portable* version should be prevented from running
by a mere office application (not anti virus or lock-down software or
parental control or anything similar) installed on the machine? Is it
right that a *portable* program should be prevented from running by some
process owned by another *non-admin* user? Is it right that LO is
interfered with by OOo? Or is at least one of these a bug?
I might not know LibreOffice well enough, so consider the following as
"wild guess" please.
The interference seems to come from the big similarity of OpenOffice.org
and LibreOffice.
LibreOffice seems to use an unaltered method of OpenOffice.org to look
for a running Office before running an installation (or starting a new
instance). So LO is looking for a running version of itself and
recognizes the running OOo as such version.
Why should I not be able to run LO and OOo at the same time on the same
machine?
Nothing stands against it politically, but technically they are
depending on too similar, if not the same, services, libraries ...
But I fear, there's nothing Apache OpenOffice could do here and I think
the vendor of the product you are trying to use would be the better
place to ask for a solution.
Harold Fuchs
London, England
Hope I could help you anyway
Christoph Jopp
You are right, wrong group. Sorry.
Harold Fuchs
London, England
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