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On 02/25/2011 06:31 PM, Vic Dura wrote:
On Fri, 25 Feb 2011 19:29:38 -0600, "Cliff Scott" <ke6kzj@qsl.net>
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?


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.


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