Well, the side by side installation, and running together, of OO & LO DOES have to do with having the correct settings in Windows. Since I have never run any of the Linux type OS's, I have not idea how those kind of things are accomplished, or if it even makes any difference. I DO know that a side by side installation installs and runs properly, both in Win7 and XP. I also have that on my XP desktop machine - actually my wife's "game" computer - and I use that machine from time to time as it is attached to my scanner. And, it also appears from some of the posts here that there are some that might be having problems with their installations because they may not completely understand default programs, file associations, and the "open with" option. And that is why I have said that maybe it would be better to have these lists separated by OS types - to see if problems are OS specific or not. That does make a difference. Its apparent that not everyone even mentions what OS, or versions, they are running when they start posting problems. So this "side by side" issue, at least as far as I have seen where enough info has been given in the posts, could be more of an OS issue rather than an overall problem with either OO or LO. IMHO, that is something very important to the programmers. Just my 2 cents worth. Roxy
Hi Roxy, Jay-- Thank you for your replies but please keep on topic. This thread is not about how to change file associations in Windows or how to set a particular program as the default in Windows. We all know how to do this already (I hope) and we all accept that only one program will launch on double-clicking files of a particular type. Rather, it's about the highly unusual -- and puzzling -- warning in the LibO 3.3.3. release notes and the recommendation to uninstall OpenOffice.org before installing LibreOffice. >From your reports, I gather that it is possible, after all, to have both these suites installed on a computer and working normally. Thanks, that is valuable information. However, two questions remain: What about the note from Jack that there could be a problem because the main executable in both LibO and OOo is named soffice.exe: does action need to be taken in this regard? And if not, can the warning to uninstall OOo before installing LibO be removed? At this point, it would be good if a developer or website maintainer with insight on what is going on could chime in. -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Side-by-side-install-of-LibO-and-OOo-tp3078835p3 089471.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] In case of problems unsubscribing, write to [email protected] Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] In case of problems unsubscribing, write to [email protected] Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
