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#1

Does anyone know why, when requesting download of 4.1 one gets the file
LibreOffice_4.1.1_win_x86.man instead of
LibreOffice_4.1.1_win_x86.msi?
And what to do about it? Makes it difficult to use the product.

#2

Does anyone know why, when requesting download of 4.1 one gets the file LibreOffice_4.1.1_win_x86.man instead of LibreOffice_4.1.1_win_x86.msi?

I think a foible of Internet Explorer sometimes renames the downloaded file unhelpfully.

And what to do about it?

Just rename the file to change the extension back to .msi and try installing that.

I trust this helps.

Brian Barker

#3

Hi :slight_smile:
Ahh, i was wondering if it was some sort of manual or documentation.

Perhaps try downloading using some other web-browser other than IE?

With MS products you find people keep talking about different sorts of malware and there are all sorts of names for the various types in the same way that Eskimos have a lot of different words meaning "snow" or "ice" whereas languages from hotter countries might not even have a word for it at all. 
Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

#4

Ahh, i was wondering if it was some sort of manual or documentation.

So you were wrong, then?

Perhaps try downloading using some other web-browser other than IE?

If you don't like the colour of your front door, one solution is indeed to demolish your house and build a new one. Or you can just repaint the front door. Just rename .man to .msi.

... in the same way that Eskimos have a lot of different words meaning "snow" or "ice" whereas languages from hotter countries might not even have a word for it at all.

This is a hoax. See Wikipedia: "In fact, the Eskimo–Aleut languages have about the same number of distinct word roots referring to snow as English does ...". Buy yourself this for Christmas: http://tinyurl.com/snow-words .

Brian Barker

#5

Hi :slight_smile:
Getting a new web-browser is hardly similar to knocking the whole house down.  It's more like just replacing the door rather than repainting it.  Hmm, it's not even that much because you can easily have 2 or more web-browsers on the same system and then just just which you feel like using at any particular moment.

Yes, renaming the file-ending is easy for some of us but actually on a Windows machine it can be quite tough because the default settings are to hide those endings.  So renaming ends up with a file called
blah.msi.man
except you don't see the .man so when the file keeps doing the same thing it's just not easy to see why.

Going back to the analogy re-painting can be a pain because you have to either
1.  leave a little border all around round the edge so that as the paint dries you can leave the door shut
2.  when you next try to open the door it's stuck and rips some of the paint off the edges but leaves other bits
3.  leave your door open to let your neighbours and passers-by in.  With oil-based gloss that's 24 hours.
So what initially seems the easiest and cheapest answer can easily turn out to be more of a pain (and more expensive if you nodded off and your neighbours nicked your stereo).

Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

#6

Yes, renaming the file-ending is easy for some of us but actually on a Windows machine it can be quite tough because the default settings are to hide those endings. So renaming ends up with a file called blah.msi.man except you don't see the .man so when the file keeps doing the same thing it's just not easy to see why.

The original questioner says "OK, that works, thanks".

... re-painting can be a pain ...

I suggest you try frontdoorpaint-users@somewhereorother.com.

Brian Barker