I just remembered something with the last "clean install" for XP and
LO. This was for 3.4.1[or 3.4.2?] and XP.
I had to install LO twice in a row, WITH NO uninstall in between. I do
not know why that happened, but it happened to me twice. BUT, the last
time I installed 3.4.4, or was it 3.4.5, on XP/pro I did not have any
issues. There was just something in the XP system[s] I was dealing with
that had issues and not all of what was to be installed was installed
properly. The second install, which was a "repair" finished the install
properly. I do not know if it was a problem for XP or for LO or a
combination of both, but the second install [without an uninstall] fixed
the problem and it worked great from there on and the installing for the
next version[s] worked fine.
I really prefer people try the most stable version of LO, which
currently is 3.4.6, before they go to the most cutting edge version,
which currently is 3.5.2.
I have found that 3.4.6 works very well for me on Win XP/pro, Vista, and
Ubuntu 10.04/12.04. There are some issues in 3.5.x that is in their bug
list that need to be fixed before I go to 3.5.x over 3.4.6..
AS FOR not installing if the install file was bad or incomplete, that is
not true. I have had both type of issues try to install and then fail
somewhere along the way. Usually it fails so bad that I have to do a
lot of cleaning up my system after the failure.
Right now, I have a HP Pavilion zv6123 laptop running XP/pro [32-bit]
and it has LO 3.4.6 running on it. I have to check what service pack is
on it, but the package installed fine.
.
On 04/30/2012 07:32 PM, Tom Davies wrote:
Hi :)
You can get the md5sum and sha hashes from
http://download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/stable/3.5.2/rpm/x86/LibO_3.5.2_Linux_x86_install-rpm_en-US.tar.gz.mirrorlist
(from the downloads page click on "info" carefully hidden in the "Download" 'button')
I guess it would be OpenOffice's config. By "configs" i mean the whole
user-profile
http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=74&t=12426
but i think it might be better to install LibreOffice as though it was a
parallel installation alongside your existing OOo
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Installing_in_parallel
I just have a feeling that your fresh new LO might be reading your old OOo profile and there might be an Extension/Add-on in there that disagrees with LO.
Regards from
Tom :)
--- On Mon, 30/4/12, Ant<[email protected]> wrote:
From: Ant<[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Unable to start my newly installed LibreOffice
v3.5.2 programs.
To: [email protected]
Date: Monday, 30 April, 2012, 22:44
On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 10:40:14PM +0100, Tom Davies wrote:
Hi :)
I'm not sure why you're Xp one is crashing. Did you use the same
installer that you used for the Win7 machine? If not then it might be
worth trying that one or just check that the download didn't go
wrong. Can you check the md5sum or sha or whatever?
No, it was a new download. If the one at home was bad, then it wouldn't
finish/fail installation, right? I will check its MD5sum. What's the
correct one?
Even a new install will pick up on an old config folder such as your old
configs for OpenOffice.org. Sometimes the config folder can be a bit wonky on
a fresh release (although it's about a year since someone last mentioned
experiencing that) so renaming the user profile can be a good idea even on a
fresh new install if things seems a bit wrong.
Which configs? OpenOffice's? Remember, this is my first LibreOffice
install.
You can find a list of fixes and things from the main wiki-page
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Main_Page
but they just tend to be from 1 minor point-release to the next. I couldn't
find the release notes.
Thanks.
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