Hi, Tom:
> On Jan 21, 2015, at 10:10 AM, Tom Davies <tomc...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi :)
> These are unix commands so you find them much the same in Gnu&Linux
> such as Ubuntu, openSuSE, RedHat, Mageia as well as in BSDs such as
> FreeBSD, Mac and others.
>
> cd = Change Directory
> ls = LiSt = roughly the same as "dir" it gives a list of what is in
> the folder/directory you are in
>
> I think the cd command is a little wrong but ended up doing the right
> thing. The aim was to get into the "home" folder and you started from
> there anyway so when the instruction didn't give a folder to change
> into you still ended up in the "home" folder. I think the instruction
> was meant to be
>
> cd ~
>
> or
>
> cd /home/user-name
Thanks for the reply. I’m sorry I wasn’t clear: Before I posted
that comment, I tested “cd” from different directories and found it to be
equivalent to “cd ~” on OS X 10.10.1. I just checked and found that Ubuntu
14.04 LTS produced the same result.
>
> but it doesn't matter. The command;
>
> mkdir -p libreoffice/builds
>
> should MaKe a new directory/folder. Actually it should create 2 new
> folders. It should create a folder called "libreoffice" and inside
> that create a sub-folder called "builds”.
Yes, except that I’m not sure if that was intended to be taken
literally: LibreOffices Preferences: LibreOffice: Paths says the default
path for Documents under OS X is “~/Documents” and for everything else is
subdirectories of “~/Library/Application Support/LibreOffice/4/user”. With LO
4.3.4.1 under Windows 7, it’s essentially the same except that everything else
is in subdirectories of “~\AppData\Roaming\LibreOffice\4\user”.
This suggests to me that I should cd to the “LibreOffice” directory
under “~/Library/Application Support on my Mac (or “~\AppData\Roaming” under
Windows 7) and create rename “4” to something like “4352”, then open LO4352 and
change all those paths from “4” to “4352” to match.
Does this make sense? I haven’t tried it yet, but I plan to if I
don’t hear something to the contrary first.
Thanks again,
Spencer
>
> There are a lot of guides to help with unix commands but Gnu&Linux
> tends to have a wider range of commands and some of them are slightly
> different from the BSD ones so they just wont work in Mac. I doubt
> they would cause harm but it's probably worth being cautious. I think
> you can get a quick-help / cheat-sheet to get an idea of what a
> command does by typing "--help" after the command or "-h". So now you
> know the 3 commands above you can try;
>
> cd --help
>
> cd -h
>
> ls --help
>
> ls -h
>
> Errr, i'd be cautious about the mkdir command in case it ends up
> creating a folder called "--help" although that probably would not be
> hugely bad anyway.
>
> Regards from
> Tom :)
>
>
>
> On 21 January 2015 at 17:05, Spencer Graves <spencer.gra...@prodsyse.com>
> wrote:
>>
>>> On Jan 21, 2015, at 7:54 AM, Stephan Bergmann <sberg...@redhat.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 01/21/2015 10:09 AM, Alex Thurgood wrote:
>>>> Le 21/01/2015 10:02, Stephan Bergmann a écrit :
>>>>>> If you want to later use LO4352, when you start it up, it should only
>>>>>> use the LO4352 user configuration folder (assuming you have named them
>>>>>> the same). I don't thin you can have both running at the same time.
>>>>>
>>>>> Where did you get that idea from? The location of the user profile is
>>>>
>>>> Probably because that is how it used to work.
>>>
>>> Are you really sure that it ever worked that if you rename LibreOffice.app
>>> to Foo.app it will then locate its user profile under ~/Library/Application
>>> Data/Foo/ instead of ~/Library/Application Data/LibreOffice/? That would
>>> surprise me.
>>
>>
>> See,
>> “https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Installing_in_parallel/OS_X”,
>> referenced in an earlier email from Alex in this thread: This describes
>> “New Method” and “Old Method”. “Old Method” says, "Up to and including the
>> 3.3.x series, the way to separate configurations on the Mac simply involved
>> renaming your existing installation user configuration folder to the same
>> name as the name of the LibreOffice application.” That doesn’t mean it ever
>> worked, but that seems to be what is described under “Old Method” ;-)
>>
>>
>> I’m still having other problems parsing the “New Method”: A first
>> step says to “cd”, then run “mkdir -p libreoffice/builds"
>> in a terminal.
>>
>>
>> Is this correct? When I “cd” then “ls”, I get the following:
>>
>>
>> Applications Documents Library Music Public
>> Desktop Downloads Movies Pictures
>>
>>
>> I don’t see “libreoffice”. Or is “libreoffice” in “mkdir -p
>> libreoffice/builds” simply a shorthand for the local LibeOffice installation
>> directory? If that’s true, then how do I find the local LibreOffice
>> installation directory?
>>
>>
>> Thanks so much for all your help. Sorry for being so dense.
>>
>>
>> Best Wishes,
>> Spencer
>>
>>
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