Re: [libreoffice-users] Unable to start my newly installed LibreOffice v3.5.2 programs.

I just remembered something with the last "clean install" for XP and 
LO.  This was for 3.4.1[or 3.4.2?] and XP.

I had to install LO twice in a row, WITH NO uninstall in between.  I do 
not know why that happened, but it happened to me twice.  BUT, the last 
time I installed 3.4.4, or was it 3.4.5, on XP/pro I did not have any 
issues.  There was just something in the XP system[s] I was dealing with 
that had issues and not all of what was to be installed was installed 
properly.  The second install, which was a "repair" finished the install 
properly.  I do not know if it was a problem for XP or for LO or a 
combination of both, but the second install [without an uninstall] fixed 
the problem and it worked great from there on and the installing for the 
next version[s] worked fine.

I really prefer people try the most stable version of LO, which 
currently is 3.4.6, before they go to the most cutting edge version, 
which currently is 3.5.2.

I have found that 3.4.6 works very well for me on Win XP/pro, Vista, and 
Ubuntu 10.04/12.04.  There are some issues in 3.5.x that is in their bug 
list that need to be fixed before I go to 3.5.x over 3.4.6..

AS FOR not installing if the install file was bad or incomplete, that is 
not true.  I have had both type of issues try to install and then fail 
somewhere along the way.  Usually it fails so bad that I have to do a 
lot of cleaning up my system after the failure.

Right now, I have a HP Pavilion zv6123 laptop running XP/pro [32-bit] 
and it has LO 3.4.6 running on it. I have to check what service pack is 
on it, but the package installed fine.
.

On 04/30/2012 07:32 PM, Tom Davies wrote:
> Hi :)
> You can get the md5sum and sha hashes from
> http://download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/stable/3.5.2/rpm/x86/LibO_3.5.2_Linux_x86_install-rpm_en-US.tar.gz.mirrorlist
> (from the downloads page click on "info" carefully hidden in the "Download" 'button') 
>
> I guess it would be OpenOffice's config.  By "configs" i mean the whole user-profile
> http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=74&t=12426
> but i think it might be better to install LibreOffice as though it was a parallel installation 
> alongside your existing OOo
> http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Installing_in_parallel
>
> I just have a feeling that your fresh new LO might be reading your old OOo profile and there might be an Extension/Add-on in there that disagrees with LO. 
> Regards from
> Tom :)
>
>
> --- On Mon, 30/4/12, Ant<ant@zimage.com>  wrote:
>
> From: Ant<ant@zimage.com>
> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Unable to start my newly installed LibreOffice v3.5.2 programs.
> To: users@global.libreoffice.org
> Date: Monday, 30 April, 2012, 22:44
>
> On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 10:40:14PM +0100, Tom Davies wrote:
> > Hi :)
> > I'm not sure why you're Xp one is crashing.  Did you use the same
> > installer that you used for the Win7 machine?  If not then it might be
> > worth trying that one or just check that the download didn't go
> > wrong.  Can you check the md5sum or sha or whatever?
> No, it was a new download. If the one at home was bad, then it wouldn't
> finish/fail installation, right? I will check its MD5sum. What's the
> correct one?
>
> > Even a new install will pick up on an old config folder such as your old configs for 
> > OpenOffice.org.  Sometimes the config folder can be a bit wonky on a fresh release (although it's 
> > about a year since someone last mentioned experiencing that) so renaming the user profile can be a 
> > good idea even on a fresh new install if things seems a bit wrong.
> Which configs? OpenOffice's? Remember, this is my first LibreOffice
> install.
>
> > You can find a list of fixes and things from the main wiki-page
> > http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Main_Page
> > but they just tend to be from 1 minor point-release to the next.  I couldn't find the release notes.
> Thanks.


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