Hi
Being quite new to LibreOffice, when I had problems with running LO &
OOo at the same time, in trying to understand the problem, I discovered
that its not just that LO uses the same file extensions, is that OOo is
encoded within LO files with OOo pathways and file names, riddled would
be a better word.
If you use a file viewer such as that within Ztree, you can see when
viewing LO configuration files, that so much is OOo names and OOo
pathways. So much so, I cannot think how they would not conflict, just
look at the LO "registrymodifications.xcu" file (hundred or more OOo's)
What I find strange is that IBM Open Symphony mini suite (based on OOo)
also uses a soffice.exe and if you run all three you will find that you
have 3 separate soffice.exe's running. Symphony on the other hand does
not conflict in anyway that I can find. So it can be done.
My only way out in the end was to deep remove OOo using Revo-Uninstall
and just hope that in the future I don't need it !!.
If you want to keep LO as the default, then you need to deep clean both
LO & OOo, then re-install LO first, because for some reason OOo does not
overwrite LO.
John B
xp pro sp3
LO 3.3.3.1 & 3.4
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On 22/06/2011 19:45, Twayne wrote:
In news:[email protected],
NoOp<[email protected]> typed:
On 06/18/2011 02:52 AM, Cor Nouws wrote:
Hi ..,
aqualung wrote (18-06-11 06:12)
It would be nice to have the option of keeping OOo, for
the odd case when something that works in it is broken
in LibreOffice, or when you need OOo installed in order
to provide help to another user who has OOo but not
LibO.
I think that is a fair idea.
The way to do this, I guess, would be to add an option
in LibO's installation, e.g.:
Thanks for your text. Too me, it looks good, though I am
not interested myself at all, since I use parallel
installation all the time ;-) Could be handy for you too:
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Installing_in_parallel
This is the issue that I brought up in December on the LO
dev list:
<http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.documentfoundation.libreoffice.devel/4130>
[Change executable/sh names]
Here we are on 3.4.rc1 and no further down the line.
You'll need to expand some of the posts in that thread to
see that I
actually tested by changing the executables names& that
works. Sample:
<http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.documentfoundation.libreoffice.devel/4360>
So the issue *still* remains that LO uses OOo .exe names.
Does the same
in Linux as well:
$ ls /opt/libreoffice3.4/program
about.png oosplash.bin services.rdb soffice.bin
unopkg.bin
bootstraprc python setuprc sofficerc
versionrc
fundamentalrc redirectrc shell spadmin
intro.png sbase simpress swriter
kdefilepicker scalc smath unoinfo
libnpsoplugin.so sdraw soffice unopkg
When will LO stand on their own and change these?
I think you've hit the nail on the head there. OOo and LO are now two
different "companies" for want of a better word, and I've never heard of any
coder wanting to use the same names for their code as another program does.
Swriter etc. being common names was an eye opener I'd never thought of, but
that same naming convention has been in place for a long time. I would think
it falls on LO to do a search& destroy on said application names since
they're the newest kids on the block. Maybe it needs to be Lwriter or
something; anything that's unique and unambiguous.
There should be NO common files, period, IMO, so that OOo and LO can do
whatever they need to do. Just as AMI, MS, WP, et al can all live together
and even be run simultaneiously, so should OOo and LO.
Personally I don't care and I'm not sure how valid having to install both
is since there are some workarounds that might suffice, but: OTOH, it does
seem like they should install peacefully, whatever the actual reason is for
the problems; it just makes sense.
HTH,
Twayne`
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