Hi :) I think the intention is to unpack and build the program in the new folder and then install or move the program to the place it should be. Maybe. However I haven't read through the rest of the instructions. Regards from Tom :)
On 21 January 2015 at 20:19, Spencer Graves <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, Tom: > > >> On Jan 21, 2015, at 10:10 AM, Tom Davies <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> >>>> On Jan 21, 2015, at 7:54 AM, Stephan Bergmann <[email protected]> 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 >>> >>> >>> -- >>> To unsubscribe 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 > -- To unsubscribe 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
