[libreoffice-users] Re: LO 3.4B2 - here we go again...

On 04/23/2011 07:42 PM, NoOp wrote:
> On 04/23/2011 06:23 PM, Terry Warby wrote:
> > On 23/04/11 02:00, NoOp wrote:
> ...
> > > Back to 3.3 for me.
> > Got exactly the same errors. Fortunately, after 3.4 Beta 1, I tried it 
> > first in a Virtual Machine (Ubuntu 11.04 Beta 2 in VirtualBox) so I 
> > still have 3.3.2 safely installed and working on my real machine!
> >
> > Terry W
>
> Sadly, Ed Drinkwater tried to bring up the suggestion that Betas should
> not replace exisiting LO installations on the developers list & was met
> with negative/childish responses from some of the developers - see:
> <http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.documentfoundation.libreoffice.devel/9783>
> [Installing beta versions replacing stable versions]
>
> I found some of the responses unacceptable & posted my opinion in the
> thread:
> <http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.documentfoundation.libreoffice.devel/9830>
>
> Odd that OOo has no problems building a beta build using a -dev install
> parameter, but LO seems to think this is 'difficult' and/or something of
> a mistery.
>
> For others that wish to muck about with LO Beta's, I recommend
> installing in a parallel/sandbox rather than messing up your entire
> system. Instructions are here:
>
> http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Installing_in_parallel
> Note: not tried those, but I've always used:
> http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Run_OOo_versions_parallel
> and those have always worked well for me.
>
> Added note: when you've multiple versions of the same LO/OOo application
> installed, I've found that it's best to just modify the
> /program/bootstraprc to point to a new ~/ user profile. For example I'd
> change ~/.openoffice.org to ~/.openoffice.org3 for the modified verision.
>
> LO devs need to learn how to install their beta/RC's as
> /opt/libreoffice-dev and autocreate the user profile as ~/.lo-dev or
> similar. It's not rocket science & certainly if OOo can do it, LO can as
> well. That said, I'd just be happy to see installable 3.4 Betas at this
> point...

Terry, best guess is to add to this bug report (where Tor seems to raise
his head again):
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31747
[Bug 31747 - broken debian files ]

Others from search:
<https://bugs.freedesktop.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=specific&order=relevance+desc&bug_status=__open__&product=LibreOffice&content=deb+beta>




-- 
Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+help@libreoffice.org
Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette
List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/
All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted