I think Win7 may think LO 4.x is the upgrade to 3.x and decide that to
install the newer version it must uninstall the older one. I have
noticed that with a lot of packages lately. Win7 deletes any previous
versions of the software before the newer one is installed.
To be honest
For most users, they would want that to happen. The "average" user does
not want multiple versions of a package installed on a Windows system.
So, I would say that Win7 or even Win8, might thing it is a proper thing
to do, uninstall old before new is installed to avoid package conflicts
or mis-matched DLL files, etc., etc..
On 07/23/2013 09:01 PM, V Stuart Foote wrote:
Virgil,
Not sure how far down the rabbit hole you'd like to go, but the simple truth is
that full installs of LibreOffice 3.x and LibreOffice 4.x use identical
components of Microsoft Windows registry and system paths and are mutually
exclusive.
One can happily run multiple versions of LibreOffice (or a mix of LibreOffice
and OpenOffice), but they will not be fully integrated with Microsoft Windows
OS--and at any given time only one can be fully integrated with the Windows OS.
Recognizing that this is the normal use case--that is how the LibreOffice
installer behaves by default. If you need it to do something else you have to
do more than click on the installer. And, fyi, the Apache OpenOffice installer
behaves exactly the same, but is less functional in migrating user settings and
supporting extensions.
Stuart
________________________________________
From: Virgil Arrington [[email protected]]
Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2013 7:52 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [libreoffice-users] LO 4 install deletes 3.6
In an attempt to compare the latest LO and AOO offerings, today I installed
both LO 4.0.4 and AOO 4.0 on my Win7 machine.
Until now, I have been happily using LO 3.6.6.2, having previously tried an
earlier release in the LO 4 series.
When I previously installed LO 4, I noticed that it seemed to uninstall my
previous version of LO 3.6. After encountering some problems with LO 4, I
uninstalled it and reinstalled LO 3.6.
On the prior occasion, I just assumed that, when installing LO 4, I had
inadvertently clicked some option to uninstall the old 3.6. So, today, when I
installed LO 4, I was very careful to make sure that I did not check any box
indicating my desire to uninstall LO 3.6.6.2.
Nevertheless, LO 4 installed and, once again, my installation of LO 3.6.6.2
disappeared.
Does anyone know if this is intentional behavior? It has happened to me now
twice, and I’m 90% certain that it was not due to anything I did.
If it is intentional, I find it most offensive. I can’t believe the TDF
developers would be so presumptuous as to decide for me that I no longer want
LO 3.6 on my system. This is the type of “let us think for you” behavior I
would expect from MS, not from a FOSS project.
btw, AOO 4.0 installed quite nicely *next to* AOO 3.4.1, and I am able to run
both programs.
Sorry, TDF, but on this one I have to give AOO a +1.
Virgil
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