LibreOffice 3.3.3 is ready for download

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#1

I used Revo Uninstaller to remove my 3.2 (or was it 3.3.2?) on Win-7. It hung
with the progress bar at about 80% of completion for over two hours, never
moving further. In the selection window (similar to Control Panel Add/Remove
window), I saw that I had told it to uninstall the main program and that the
Help module (or whatever it was called) had not started. On a whim, I started
another instance of RU and told it to uninstall the help section. I chose the
slowest, most thorough number 4 setting for both uninstalls. Long story short
-- it then completely uninstalled both 'halves' in about a minute and I'm ready
to DL the 3.3.3 final and install it.

Don't know if this'll help anyone else, but it [apparently] needs to remove the
help files first. Hopefully the new install will go smoothly. I have never
experienced a problem installing either OOo or my first shot at LibO.

#2

Earl

I used Revo Uninstaller to remove my 3.2 (or was it 3.3.2?) on Win-7. It hung
with the progress bar at about 80% of completion for over two hours, never
moving further. In the selection window (similar to Control Panel Add/Remove
window), I saw that I had told it to uninstall the main program and that the
Help module (or whatever it was called) had not started. On a whim, I started
another instance of RU and told it to uninstall the help section. I chose the
slowest, most thorough number 4 setting for both uninstalls. Long story short
-- it then completely uninstalled both 'halves' in about a minute and I'm ready
to DL the 3.3.3 final and install it.

Don't know if this'll help anyone else, but it [apparently] needs to remove the
help files first. Hopefully the new install will go smoothly. I have never
experienced a problem installing either OOo or my first shot at LibO.
--
I'm so busy, I don't know whether I found a rope or lost my horse!
<>< Earl

--

Thanks

#3

Thanks for the info though. If I have any problems with friends' computer with Win-7 and LO installs, I will remember your "trick".

I do not use Win-7, so this may be a stupid question. So is "Revo Uninstaller" the replacement for add/remove programs in the XP and Vista Control Panel? Or is it some other uninstall program that can be used?

Since I never had any real install issues with OOo or LO, except one OOo version where the JRE bombed out every time, so I never had to use an uninstall program to remove OOo or LO on a Windows computer. Actually I had to do that with "beta" and "RC#" version, but that does not count.

The error dialogs came up with 3.3.3 on Vista, but they were talking about .NET issues and by saying "OK" or "YES", the install went though fine.

Now on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, I sometimes have to do a "purge" for versions, but that is issues on my system, not LibreOffice issues.

#4

Hi :slight_smile:
The "Revo Uninstaller" is a 3rd party app. It has nothing to do with Microsoft,
TDF, Oracle nor Apache. I don't know if it's OpenSource or what or who does own
it or why they make it. If MS ere capable of making something this good then i
suspect they would be making a lot of fuss about it. I haven't used it so i
don't know if it's as good as people say.

The official Microsoft nearest equivalent is their "Add/Remove Programs" (which
doesn't add programs btw (a tangent)) and also doesn't seem to un-install
programs particularly well either imo. There are lots of 3rd party apps that
claim to be able to clean up the registry but they usually turn out to be
malware. Unlike those Revo looks like an excellent product and apparently does
more than just deal with registry clutter.

Regards form
Tom :slight_smile:

#5

<Non W7 issues snipped>

I'll remember the help files issue, and thanks for that.

Question: Why did you choose Revo rather than to use the W7 add/remove application in the control panel? I have used W7's add/remove only once, for another application (that didn't work as advertised) and that worked fine.

Is there some LO quirk that requires a separate removal program beyond W7's native add/remove?

I use W7 64 bit Home Premium with AMD quad core processor, 4 GB RAM, SATA disk.

--David

#6

No, no. It's an excellent free replacement and far superior to MS' Add/Remove,
IMO. You can download it at the link below and install just like any other app.
After clicking the link, be careful to not choose the 30-day free trial of the
"Pro" version -- you don't really need it..well, unless you're needing to put
your wallet on a diet. :slight_smile: Instead, scroll to the bottom of the page and click
on the FREE download button. Works great on Win-XP and Vista. If your OS is
otherwise, check requirements at the link before downloading. HTH!

http://www.revouninstaller.com/revo_uninstaller_free_download.html

#7

In response to your first paragraph below: Remember the spaghetti & meatball
commercial, Tom? "Try it, you'll like it." Actually, NTITOI, that may have been
a commercial for Rolaids or some other OTC antacid. The first sentence in your
second paragraph will tell you why you should try it.

BTW, I do agree with you about most "registry cleaners." Some are fair, but many
more are junk.

#8

Why is there a 3.3.3 when 3.4.0 was released a while ago? Apart from
the incredible amount of bugs in 3.4.0…

Regards

Johnny Rosenberg
ジョニー・ローゼンバーグ

#9

To the owners and/or moderators:

Hope it's okay to change the subject line as above. I was rebuked for totally
"hijacking a thread" early on (perhaps that was on the OOo list, not sure now),
but on many other lists, leaving the original subject intact as above is
acceptable. It just seemed like the time may be right to do so here. Will
apologize again if I'm wrong.

David,

FOA, I'm trimming all below except your query. When I first installed LibO, it
was under Ubu 10.04 and things were a total mess. I had wanted to use it and
keep OOo for comparison. HU-U-UGE mistake, at least in my experience. I wound
up completely removing both programs (which I knew that Linux/Ubuntu does a far
better job of than Windoze), then reinstalled the same version of LibO, the same
one I originally put on Win-7. Not wanting to experience the same problems on
it, I used RU to make sure it cleaned all registry entries and other "leftovers"
that Windows' Add/Remove doesn't remove so well. Perhaps unnecessary, but all's
going well with 3.3.3 final now. And I'll [always] swear by RU. HTH!

#10

Hi :slight_smile:
The 3.3.x series is the stable series with a years worth of support. It's for
corporate use and for places where re-installs and bug-fixing is not really a
good choice. The 3.4.x series is the testing/development branch and tends to
have extra functionality and new features.

A lot of OpenSource projects work this way. With the linux kernel it's the odd
numbers that were going to be testing/development branch. The 2.6.xx.whatever,
is meant to be stable. Ubuntu is a little different in having an "LTS" release
every 2 years with 3 years support. Debian has a stable and separate testing
and development branches. SliTaz call their's a "cooking" release. RedHat use
a separate distro, Fedora, for testing interesting ideas.
Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

#11

Hi :slight_smile:
The 3.3.x series is the stable series with a years worth of support.  It's for
corporate use and for places where re-installs and bug-fixing is not really a
good choice.  The 3.4.x series is the testing/development branch and tends to
have extra functionality and new features.

A lot of OpenSource projects work this way.

Yes, I know, like GIMP, but they do it the other way around: Even
numbers for stable releases, like 2.6. I just didn't know that the
LibreOffice developers do that too, since the OpenOffice.org people
don't.

Regards

Johnny Rosenberg
ジョニー・ローゼンバーグ

#12

I do not have any OOo installs, any more, in my archives, but I am keeping all the LibreOffice installs for a bit.

Since I deal with handing out DVDs, I want to keep the option of having earlier versions, just in case the current version has a bug that messes with something that worked with an earlier version. I will wait till 3.4.1 before handing out that version, but will use 3.3.x for any business or any non computer literate person to use.

3.3.x line for most stable
3.4.x line for cutting edge
            till the last 3.3.x version out late this year and 3.5.x coming out in Feb. 2012.

I currently use 3.3.3 for Ubuntu/.deb 64-bit and Windows Vista 32-bit.

#13

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http://www.libreoffice.org/download/release-notes/