Installing Apache OO on same distro as LO - for alternate use

users
#1

Hello, everyone.

Can Apache OO be installed alongside LO (to run at different times)?

LO 3.5.7.2 [Build ID: 350m1(Build:2)] on Linux Mint 13.

john

#2

john herron wrote:

Can Apache OO be installed alongside LO (to run at different times)?

Both can be installed and even run at the same time.

#3

John

I have installed two versions of LO and AOO on openSUSE 12.3. What may happen is one may not show up in the menu. In my case all three are displayed in the menu

Jay

#4

Yes. But I *highly* recommend that you install AOOo 4.x in a parallel
folder instead of installing it via the standard 'dpkg -i *.deb'
command. I've found that AOOo 4.x takes over *all* mime associations for
opendoc's. It's not too much of a problem re-associating the documents
via Nautilus or Nemo, but it totally screws up other applications like
Firefox & SeaMonkey. I've even tried leaving out
openoffice-gnome-integration_4.0.1-5_amd64.deb, but it still screws up
my mime associations.

Note: earlier versions of OOo/AOOo didn't do this, but AOOo seems to
have bundled

Installing a parallel version is pretty simple, just follow the
instructions here:

<https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Run_OOo_versions_parallel>

<https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Run_OOo_versions_parallel#DEB_packages_2>

Then create a panel launcher pointing to the folder where you do the
install, example:
/home/<user>/AOOo/AOOoOpt/opt/openoffice4/program/soffice

You can of course move the AOOo folder to /opt to allow other users to
use it if you wish.

#5

Yet another good reason for the creation/implementation of a proper 'File Associations Manager' for Libreoffice:

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44462

Please feel free to advocate and vote for it...