Hi :) There is a guide to help avoid the usual conflicts http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Installing_in_parallel
I think the problems are mostly when both version are open at the same time, for example if one is permanently kinda open by having it's QuickLauncher on. Regards from Tom :) --- On Sat, 29/10/11, Dennis E. Hamilton <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Dennis E. Hamilton <[email protected]> > Subject: RE: [libreoffice-users] LO Conflicts with OOo > To: [email protected] > Date: Saturday, 29 October, 2011, 18:18 > It makes perfect sense that OOo and > LO could be installed side by side and also run at the same > time. > > The problem is that they all lay claim to the same program > names, library names, and probably registry settings. > > > (The use of the same program names is why Windows, for > example, can't have Open With ... for both > LO, and OOo on the association of programs with file > extensions, such as .odt and .ods. (But one can > add Open With ... Microsoft Word, WinZip, etc. > Different versions of the same product are harder for > Windows to distinguish with Open With ..., absent some > creative work on the part of the producers of those product > versions.) > > Now that there are different lineages progressing from a > common OO.o 3.2-or-so base, there needs to be a way to avoid > collisions with parallel efforts and the common past > versions. > > For users, all of their choices should work. Running > a portable version should work. Having user accounts > with different versions should work, etc. I suspect > that these cases have simply not been dealt with > systematically, although clearly there has been some > attention to it. And if it is by design to not all > concurrent operation, I would expect gentle handling when an > user violates that constraint. > > (I have no recommendation on what installs are on top of > what previous versions of the same product. It may be a > little too course-grained that any LO 3.y will replace any > LO 3.x where x < y, although that is a second-order > problem. It is good that LO 3.y does not replace OOo > 3.x, and vice versa.) > > - Dennis > > -----Original Message----- > From: Stephan Zietsman [mailto:[email protected]] > > Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2011 05:44 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] LO Conflicts with OOo > > Harold Fuchs wrote: > [ ... ] > > I may be mistaken but as far as I know, LO and OOo are not > expected to > run at the same time (so I don't think it is a bug). > But if they are > both installed on the same computer, they should both work > (though not > at the same time). Same would apply to the portable > version(s). > > > Why should I not be able to run LO and OOo at the same > time on the same machine? > > Anyone care to comment? > > Regards > Stephan > > > > -- > For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > 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 > -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ 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
