[libreoffice-users] Re: Open Office and Libre Office Questions...

Am 19.04.2012 14:34, R.S. wrote:
> Hi, although it colud be possible, the installation program registers on
> the registry the same associations.

So what? There can be many programs to open a certain type of files. But 
only one program that loads a given file on a double-click.
On my Linux laptop I have 5 different viewers and editors for the same 
types of picture files. I don't know the amount of multi-media players 
on my system. Not all of them appear in the main menu.

I have OOo 1.1.5, 3.3, 3.4, LibO 3.3.4 and 3.5.2 on the same machine. 
That is 5 versions of the same office suite. I removed OOo 2.4.3 by 
mistake recently.
Of course, only one particular version will be used when I double-click 
some ODF document. A double-click on a Microsoft file opens in AbiWord 
or Gnumeric respectively. I am the one who controls all these most 
trivial settings and I know many ways to load some file into a 
particular application.
The foremost purpose of any desktop environment is free choice between 
all the installed applications. Someone who is unable to load the same 
file into another application is definitively computer illiterate and 
should do something against it.

If you have encountered crashes with
> Libreoffice 3.5.2.2 try using version 3.4.6.
> I prefer using Libreoffice because it is more efficient and it has a lot
> of functions that are not included in OpenOffice.

Try another user profile and install properly[*]. Contrary to re-install 
and version hopping, resetting the profile really helps in many cases.

[*] A proper installation includes an md5sum check of the downloaded 
file before installation. On a Windows box one should cut off the 
internet connection and disable the virus scanner during the install 
process. Disable any update notification and the nasty quick-starter.


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