Hi :) I think you finding something easy is no real indication of whether it is really easy or actually quite complicated. You have done many amazing things and seem to have a lot of experience doing exactly this in another OS so you have a good foundation that probably most of us don't have.
Actually your email seem to simplify the instructions rather well! :) I sometimes find that even just explaining something any different way around is a good way to get people unstuck. So, many thanks for that :) @ Spencer. Did that help make more sense of the instructions? If not please let us know and don't worry about questions seeming stupid to you. Clearly only a few people here understand how to do it so we are learning here too. Regards from Tom :) On 22 January 2015 at 04:05, V Stuart Foote <[email protected]> wrote: > Just "inherited" a 2007 iMac and loaded Yosemite (OS X 10.10.1) > > First thing I loaded LO 4.4.0.2, and then 4.3.6.2 and the current > (2015-01-21) 4.5.0 master. > > Steps couldn't be simpler. In fact parallel install is done almost the same > as with the Windows .msi packages > > Put which ever of the installs into /Applications just like any package > install. Drag and drop there once the .dmg is downloaded and mounted. > Launch by double clicking the folder in /Applications. > > For the additional installs, they could go into /Applications as well just > with different names. > > But they can go anywhere. For example onto user's Desktop, Documents, > Downloads etc... just mount the downloaded .dmg package and drag the > LibreOffice or LibreOfficeDev .app directory object to where you want it to > reside. It does not need to go into /Applications. > > Then use Spotlight to find the bootstraprc file and edit it in TextEdit. > Just as with Windows or Linux builds, edit the > "UserInstallation=$SYSUSERCONFIG/LibreOffice/4 "to be > "UserInstallation=$ORIGIN/../Data/settings" > > The $ORIGIN variable is parsed internally by LibreOffice and then creates > the entire user profile within the app package, in the example > "Data/settings" but the directory names for the user profile can actually be > anything you like. They are fully structured profiles and are portable. > > When ready to launch the build, open the .app folder with Finder and locate > the soffice executable and Control Open it. You can create an app launcher > for it if you don't want to dig down into the folder every time. > > Easy as pie... I had all three flavors running simultaneously and could do > side-by-side comparisons of the UI. > > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Installing-2-versions-of-LO-on-Mac-OS-X-10-10-1-Yosemite-tp4136563p4136999.html > Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > -- > 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
