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#1

List Ahoy:

Charles Schulz wrote: "Also, I'm curious to know what operating system you replaced her existing system with."
The original was Vista, and the replacement was Vista. The easiest path, since everything was right there in a recovery partition on the hard drive.

"It looks like you didn't want to migrate the person on Linux."
I don't think you appreciate the depth of resistance to change on the part of the technologically timid. Besides, if I failed to pull off a simple install of LO on a virgin-system machine, what chance would I have with Linux? It was also necessary to re-load the original bundled M$ software, even if only to allow exporting the data trapped in Outlook's .pst file to Thunderbird.

".... perhaps you could reinstall LibreOffice for her if there's a working mirror ...."
".... what went wrong with this particular server."
As I said, I fetched LO from at least 2 different mirrors, and I would now expand that to "at least 3", since 5.0.3 apparently defaulted to the University of Texas. Are you suggesting an epidemic amongst them? And, for what it's worth, I found it hard to locate and connect with the download sites on non-default mirrors. None of the home pages of any of the institutions that TDF lists as mirrors showed any obvious path to their download departments, and by just using the links listed no control was afforded.

As said, if the fault is truly in all the many downloads of yesterday, then transporting by external drive one or more of the 21 earlier-edition installers still available on this Curtains 7 machine should work. However, I suspect that some negative synergy twixt LO and Vista has reared its ugly head here.

trj

#2

Marianne,

List Ahoy:

Charles Schulz wrote: "Also, I'm curious to know what operating system
you replaced her existing system with."
The original was Vista, and the replacement was Vista. The easiest
path, since everything was right there in a recovery partition on the
hard drive.

"It looks like you didn't want to migrate the person on Linux."
I don't think you appreciate the depth of resistance to change on the
part of the technologically timid. Besides, if I failed to pull off a
simple install of LO on a virgin-system machine, what chance would I
have with Linux? It was also necessary to re-load the original bundled
M$ software, even if only to allow exporting the data trapped in
Outlook's .pst file to Thunderbird.

Of course - I just wanted to understand the background a bit better.

".... perhaps you could reinstall LibreOffice for her if there's a
working mirror ...."
".... what went wrong with this particular server."
As I said, I fetched LO from at least 2 different mirrors, and I would
now expand that to "at least 3", since 5.0.3 apparently defaulted to
the University of Texas. Are you suggesting an epidemic amongst them?
And, for what it's worth, I found it hard to locate and connect with
the download sites on non-default mirrors. None of the home pages of
any of the institutions that TDF lists as mirrors showed any obvious
path to their download departments, and by just using the links listed
no control was afforded.

As said, if the fault is truly in all the many downloads of yesterday,
then transporting by external drive one or more of the 21
earlier-edition installers still available on this Curtains 7 machine
should work. However, I suspect that some negative synergy twixt LO
and Vista has reared its ugly head here.

Yes indeed. I just checked the mirrors you mentioned. I clicked on each of them, and each of them worked, and worked well.
Maybe there's an issue with the browser? At least today, right now, these mirrors are fully working.

best,

Charles.

#3

[…]

Besides, if I failed to pull off a

simple install of LO on a virgin-system machine,

It was not a virgin system, because OEM images are full of "suggested"
softwares…

what chance would I have with Linux?

Many more, since it installs flawless and brings LO along with the system,
and also keeps it updated like every other software distributed with it
(that's why Linux Distributions are called so ;).

[…]

As said, if the fault is truly in all the many downloads of yesterday,
then transporting by external drive one or more of the 21
earlier-edition installers still available on this Curtains 7 machine
should work. However, I suspect that some negative synergy twixt LO
and Vista has reared its ugly head here.

As written, more than a Vista & LO issue (which can happen anyway) I tend
to believe to some LO & some other vendor's bundled stuff issue.

Yes indeed. I just checked the mirrors you mentioned. I clicked on each of

them, and each of them worked, and worked well.

Maybe there's an issue with the browser? At least today, right now, these

mirrors are fully working.

Or, indeed, maybe also some malware or virus is corrupting images
downloaded.
Did you try MD5 checksum? And what about downloading via Torrent?

By the way, just for curiosity, what was the error returned by the
installer?

#4

This is my main complaint about this entire thread.

Not once did anyone ask for specific details of what was meant by 'none
of these would install, or give any indication of why they wouldn't'...

Marianne,

In the future, details are critical to finding the cause of problems
like these.