Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Can Libre Office be installed on an external drive. ?

Hi :)
Ahh, i like that one :)  I have a tiny usb-stick (150Mb) with a full install of 
SliTaz on it and a couple of massive (8Gb) ones with Ubuntu.  I carefully made 
it so that Grub installed to the MBR of the usb-stick instead of to sda but they 
kinda wanted to default to the usb-stick anyway so that was fairly easy :)  I am 
trying to sort a LiveUsb stick with a large enough persistent file that i can 
install various things i need.  It's a struggle because i don't want my boss to 
notice me setting it up on one of the idle machines at work.  


Another route might be to have the portable apps version of LibreOffice for use 
on Windows machines and the 2 main installers for Gnu&Linux, ie the debs and the 
rpms.  Then  having the config folder on the usb-stick should hopefully mean 
that LibreOffice works the same whichever machine you use.  The same config 
folder can be used for both Windows and Gnu&Linux apparently.  

~/.libreoffice/3/user
or something like that.  The trick is trying to find your config folder and then 
find a way of changing the 

Tools - Options - LibreOffice - Paths
to point at your config folder.  Remember to switch it back when you are done if 
other people use LibreOffice on that machine!  Is it possible to have 2 user 
profiles set in some way?
Regards from
Tom :)





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From: nvrk <nvrk.89410@gmail.com>
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Sent: Tue, 6 September, 2011 3:38:46
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Can Libre Office be installed on an 
external drive. ?

On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 8:07 AM, Twayne <TWAYNE@twaynesdomain.com> wrote:

> In news:loom.20110905T023739-412@post.gmane.org,
> Charles E. LaMonte <n3vuo@arrl.net> typed:
> > Greetings Ladies and Gentlemen, Is it possible to install
> > Libre Office on an external hard drive ? The computer
> > will have either Windows Operating System or Linux
> > Operating System. Thank you.
>
> Yes. Or course, some parts that must reside on the boot drive will still go
> to the boot drive as with any other app.
>
>
>
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My solution is to install Linux (Ubuntu or Mint in my case) on the external
drive.  If the computer used does not have a built in external drive boot
capability then use PLOP or SuperGrubDisk and boot either of these from the
CDRom.
nvsoar

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