Barbara Duprey wrote:
Pat wrote:
New to OO so this is probably a dumb question to the rest of you -
I run Secunia which goes through my computer and notifies me which
programs
can/should be updated. This week it said OO should be updated. So I
wnet
to www.openoffice.org but didn't, and still don't see any indication
on that
screen that there is an update to be installed. Went back to Secunia
and
used it to download the update. So why couldn't I find it on the OO
site?
I did notice that through the Secunia site, the version of OO I had,
3.2.1 was deleted and a new version, 3.2.1 build 9502 was installed.
OR - does OO, on the www.openoffice.org site use the "I want to
download
OO" to mean that there is an update? If that is so, where on that
page does
it tell you that there is an update?
dmean
Not a dumb question at all! For OOo, "update" means download the whole
package, there are no incremental updates. (The main reason seems to
be that it gets too messy trying to support the incremental updates on
all the different platforms.) In general any fixes to 3.2.1 would be
incorporated into a new "point level" (like 3.2.2) or more important
level release (like 3.3.x). So I'm not sure why Seconia told you to
update, but I'd recommend that you not update at least until a new
stable release is announced. That tends to get talked about here, as
well as other places.
I can think of a couple of reasons for this happening.
If you had installed RC1 (release candidate version 1), then you
would have OOo 3.2.1 on your hard drive. But it would not be the latest
version: the build for it would have been 94xx. If this is the case,
then you should have downloaded and installed build 9502 as recommended
by secunia.
However, if you had installed 3.2.1 as either RC2 or the stable
release, you installed 18m build 9502. (There is no difference between
RC2 and the stable release as far as 3.2.1 is concerned.) There would
have been no need to download and install OOo 3.2.1 as you already had
the latest stable release.
Perhaps some of the mystery would disappear if we knew what the
build number is for your earlier version of 3.2.1. Otherwise it is a
matter of conjecture.
The next scheduled release is for 3.3.0 due out this fall so relax
until then as far a new version of OOo.
Dan
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