On 04/13/2012 06:03 PM, Don Myers wrote: > > > On 04/13/2012 08:37 PM, NoOp wrote: ... >> The only bits you need to watch out for is where the user >> configuration files are placed. In order to not have one write over >> the other, I simply modify the bootsraprc file *before first run* so >> that each have their own user config/profile files. Example: >> >> For LO 3.3: >> $ gksu gedit /opt/libreoffice/program/bootstraprc >> and change >> UserInstallation=$SYSUSERCONFIG/.libreoffice/3 >> to >> UserInstallation=$SYSUSERCONFIG/.libreoffice3.3/3 >> >> For LO 3.4: >> $ gksu gedit /opt/libreoffice3.4/program/bootstraprc >> >> to >> UserInstallation=$SYSUSERCONFIG/.libreoffice3.4/3 >> >> For LO 3.5: >> $ gksu gedit /opt/libreoffice3.5/program/bootstraprc >> >> to >> UserInstallation=$SYSUSERCONFIG/libreoffice3.5/3 >> >> Create menu items to each (example: >> '/opt/libreoffice3.5/program/soffice'), and that's it. The >> Ubuntu/distro version will keep it's profile at ~/.libreoffice/3/user >> (or ~/.config/libreoffice/3/user in the case of the 3.5 versions), the >> others will name& put the profile as you've intsructed in the >> bootstraprc file. ... >> >> > Thank you NoOp. I appreciate the information. The bad experience I had > was about 2 years ago with OpenOffice. I had updated that to a new > version. Several months later Ubuntu had an upgrade, and they had the > same version of Open Office I had upgraded to. I didn't think anything > about it. When I went to use Calc, I had some of the strangest > behaviors. For any formula, it always gave the wrong answers, even for > very obvious ones, such as 2+2, or 2*25. The only way I got things > working properly again was to uninstall OpenOffice completely, then I > reinstalled the application directly from OpenOffice. > > Don
Ah. That is most likely of the two sharing the same profile (~/.openoffice.org/3/user). That is why I ensure that the standard install profiles are different from the distro version. For OOo 3.4 (standard) my bootstraprc file is modified to: UserInstallation=$SYSUSERCONFIG/.openoffice.org3.4/3 That kept it completely separate from the distro ~/.openoffice.org/3/. Note: the advantage of keeping (U)OOo installed (at the time) was that (U)OOo used the go-oo version, so it used gstreamer for multimedia. The standard versions of OOo did not & so you had to install the ancient Java Media Format (JMF) & that was a royal PITA. The advantage of keeping all of these installed on my system is that I can easily compare differences between versions, including putting windows of each side-by-side. -- 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
