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How do I upgrade my libreoffice install? I have win xp home with sp3..
there is no update setting on my install...
W dniu 25.02.2011 16:24, Thorne pisze:
How do I upgrade my libreoffice install? I have win xp home with sp3..
there is no update setting on my install...
Download new version and install it. Install auto-magic remove old
version and put new one.
Mieszko
** Reply to message from Thorne <thorne.olinger@gmail.com> on Fri, 25 Feb
2011 10:24:58 -0500
How do I upgrade my libreoffice install? I have win xp home with sp3..
there is no update setting on my install...
Install over the top of the last one. If you do that then you keep all the
setups and extensions.
wrote Re Re: [libreoffice-users] upgrade from 3.3.0 to 3.3.1:
** Reply to message from Thorne <thorne.olinger@gmail.com> on Fri, 25 Feb
2011 10:24:58 -0500How do I upgrade my libreoffice install? I have win xp home with sp3..
there is no update setting on my install...Install over the top of the last one. If you do that then you keep all the
setups and extensions.
On a WinXP system, can LibreOffice 3.3.1 be installed over OpenOffice
3.3.0?
It's an issue:
http://www.libreoffice.org/download/release-notes/
<quote>
For Windows users that have OpenOffice.org installed, we advise
uninstalling that beforehand, because it registers the same file type
associations.
</quote>
The issue is that LO uses the same executables as OOo (swriter, etc) and
hasn't yet cleaned up the code to use something else (lowriter, etc).
This can cause *considerable* issues with OOo and LO coexisting on the
same Windows system. If you want to have both installed (on Windows -
it's no issue on linux) at the same time, then I'd suggest installing
'in parallel', see:
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Installing_in_parallel
<http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Run_OOo_versions_parallel#Windows>
So at this point (on Windows) you are better off with either/or: OOo or
LO, but not both at the same time.
Note: before well known user(s) on this list jump in with comments
regarding linux installs; you can indeed run OOo/distro-OOo/LO-standard
(non-PPA et al) on a linux system without any issues *at all*. In fact
you can run them *all* at the same time. So before you post that you
can't, start a new thread and prove me wrong - with details & facts.
** Reply to message from Vic Dura <vpdura@hiwaay.net> on Fri, 25 Feb 2011
20:31:03 -0600
wrote Re Re: [libreoffice-users] upgrade from 3.3.0 to 3.3.1:
>** Reply to message from Thorne <thorne.olinger@gmail.com> on Fri, 25 Feb
>2011 10:24:58 -0500
>
>> How do I upgrade my libreoffice install? I have win xp home with sp3..
>> there is no update setting on my install...
>
>Install over the top of the last one. If you do that then you keep all the
>setups and extensions.On a WinXP system, can LibreOffice 3.3.1 be installed over OpenOffice
3.3.0?
Sure can. I did it at work. I know that some have apparently had bad
experiences so you have to evaluate that possibility, but I have both OOo and
LO installed on XP at work and the install over the top went without problem.
BTW, I also did it at home on W2K. Note - I do not use Quickstarter so no
conflict there.
Re [libreoffice-users] Re: upgrade from 3.3.0 to 3.3.1:
On a WinXP system, can LibreOffice 3.3.1 be installed over OpenOffice
3.3.0?It's an issue:
http://www.libreoffice.org/download/release-notes/
<quote>
For Windows users that have OpenOffice.org installed, we advise
uninstalling that beforehand, because it registers the same file type
associations.
</quote>
Thanks!
wrote Re Re: [libreoffice-users] upgrade from 3.3.0 to 3.3.1:
** Reply to message from Vic Dura <vpdura@hiwaay.net> on Fri, 25 Feb 2011
20:31:03 -0600On a WinXP system, can LibreOffice 3.3.1 be installed over OpenOffice
3.3.0?Sure can. I did it at work. I know that some have apparently had bad
experiences so you have to evaluate that possibility, but I have both OOo and
LO installed on XP at work and the install over the top went without problem.
BTW, I also did it at home on W2K. Note - I do not use Quickstarter so no
conflict there.
Thanks Cliff. Has anyone here run into a problem installing LO 3.3.1
over OO 3.3.0 on a Windows system? If so, would you care to mention
what the problem/solution was?
Thanks
btw, I did not find an updated tool inside LO 3.3 (OSX) though the OOo fork that I had been using beforehand did have one (PC) - though it installed over 3.3 without any problem, an automated update is, well, warm and fuzzy. Will that be coming back?
I did not see one when I was downloading the 3.3.1 files to update the DVD project I am working on. I did notice that the MacOSX installs now include the en-US language pack, instead of installing it separately for the 3.3.0 version.
The "funny" thing was I had the install page on the DVD project almost finalized and the next day I had download the 3.3.1 files and update the links, plus upload all those file to the demo DVD pages online.
http://www.lungstrom.com/libreoffice-dvd-project/LibreOffice-disc-North-American-DVD/install.html
I do like the "warm and fuzzy" approach for updating my system, but for now I am going to do the full installs of the LibreOffice updates, instead of going though the repository updates with Ubuntu [11.4 and beyond] when they come out.
No problem here. I do have OOo 3.3.0 (either final or one of the last RCs) and have installed LibreOffice 3.0 without any problems. I upgraded one to LO 3.3.1 without any problems too. All this on two Windows 7 64-bit systems and on one Windows XP system. QuickStart is off on all machines and had been throughout all installation, and I think the key point.
One problematic aspect, at least on Windows, is that OpenOffice turns on QuickStart by default. So the unsuspecting user may try to install LibreOffice on a machine that has QuickStart on, and then run into issues.
Until LibreOffice uses different application names for all its internal modules (it it ever happens), would it be possible to modify the installer so that it either:
– stops all versions of QuickStart (LO and OOo) before installation,
– puts a warning message asking the user to stop QuickStart before proceeding?
Regards,
________________________________
From: Vic Dura <vpdura@hiwaay.net>
To: users@libreoffice.org
Sent: Sat, 26 February, 2011 10:30:51
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] upgrade from 3.3.0 to 3.3.1
On Fri, 25 Feb 2011 21:24:25 -0600, "Cliff Scott" <ke6kzj@qsl.net>
wrote Re Re: [libreoffice-users] upgrade from 3.3.0 to 3.3.1:
** Reply to message from Vic Dura <vpdura@hiwaay.net> on Fri, 25 Feb 2011
20:31:03 -0600On a WinXP system, can LibreOffice 3.3.1 be installed over OpenOffice
3.3.0?Sure can. I did it at work. I know that some have apparently had bad
experiences so you have to evaluate that possibility, but I have both OOo and
LO installed on XP at work and the install over the top went without problem.
BTW, I also did it at home on W2K. Note - I do not use Quickstarter so no
conflict there.
Thanks Cliff. Has anyone here run into a problem installing LO 3.3.1
over OO 3.3.0 on a Windows system? If so, would you care to mention
what the problem/solution was?
Thanks
Hi 
There are sometimes other problems but it's fairly rare. The easiest answer is
to uninstall OpenOffice since it is easy to reinstall if you ever want to
return.
Regards from
Tom
** Reply to message from Vic Dura ...
Thanks Cliff. Has anyone here run into a problem installing LO 3.3.1
over OO 3.3.0 on a Windows system? If so, would you care to mention
what the problem/solution was?
...
Note: Tom fix (or change) your email client. Your posts do not show
proper attributions or quote indicators. You've already been advised on
how to do this.
There are sometimes other problems but it's fairly rare. The easiest answer is
to uninstall OpenOffice since it is easy to reinstall if you ever want to
return.
It is *not* rare. In fact it is common. Please see:
<http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.documentfoundation.libreoffice.devel/4130>
and particularly:
<http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.documentfoundation.libreoffice.devel/4137>
<http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.documentfoundation.libreoffice.devel/4359>
<http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.documentfoundation.libreoffice.devel/4360>
<http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.documentfoundation.libreoffice.devel/4360>
That is why there is a release note regarding this issue:
http://www.libreoffice.org/download/release-notes/
I suggest that you've not actually installed and tested OOo and LO on a
Windows system. If you have (installed) you certainly haven't paid any
attention to application icons, defaults, associations et al. Please do
not continue to advise that OOo and LO easily coexist together on a
Windows system, particularly when the release notes advise against doing
so for the very reasons I've pointed out above.
Hey Tom,
With all the work on the Americas DVD project and the upgrading its pages with the change from 3.3.0 to 3.3.1, I forget till a few hours ago to upgrade my systems to this new versions. I tested the Vista laptop with the install a Thursday[?] but forgot to do my Ubuntu desktop.
By the By - The Vista reinstall from .0 to .1 went off with not problems at all.
Tim L.
Re "Has anyone here run into a problem installing LO 3.3.1 over OO 3.3.0 on a Windows system?"
LO installs over OO fine. The problem arises if you decide to uninstall OpenOffice later, that breaks all the ODF file associations in LibreOffice. Better IMHO to uninstall OO first.
Brock
________________________________
From: webmaster for Kracked Press Productions <webmaster@krackedpress.com>
To: users@libreoffice.org
Sent: Sun, 27 February, 2011 3:25:06
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] upgrade from 3.3.0 to 3.3.1
On 02/26/2011 07:56 PM, Tom Davies wrote:
Hi
There are sometimes other problems but it's fairly rare. The easiest answer
is
to uninstall OpenOffice since it is easy to reinstall if you ever want to
return.
Regards from
Tom
Hey Tom,
With all the work on the Americas DVD project and the upgrading its pages with
the change from 3.3.0 to 3.3.1, I forget till a few hours ago to upgrade my
systems to this new versions. I tested the Vista laptop with the install a
Thursday[?] but forgot to do my Ubuntu desktop.
By the By - The Vista reinstall from .0 to .1 went off with not problems at all.
Tim L.
Hi
That is good to hear, thanks It does usually work well but rare problems get
people all excited even when they are easy to fix so it's good to be ready.
Trouble-shooting and pinpointing those rare problems might be a good idea
sometime. Anyway, it is good to hear that it worked well for you
Regards from
Tom
Hi
Gary, who are you to order me around like that?
Adapting my systems made it inconvenient for everything else except for this
list and this list was still not happy. I went back to using settings that all
other office users seem to use. If support lists for LibreOffice can't accept
normal office users using standard office methods and systems then we have a
problem.
I was heavily criticised when i first said there was a problem using LibreOffice
and OpenOffice on a single system. If we search through the threads it would
not surprise me to find you were one of those people harassing me then. I
continued to state the truth despite getting flamed and criticised. Many people
wrote to the lists to say they HAD managed to get LibreOffice and OpenOffice
working and now we even have pages of work-arounds but we still got people
saying they were having troubles that vanished when 1 or other were uninstalled.
I don't know why you feel justified in bullying people. If there was a
complaints procedure then i would use it. Please can we stop this nonsense and
help people without generating another flame-war?
Regards from
Tom