On 03/18/2013 07:27 PM, James E. Lang wrote:
I am currently using LibreOffice 3.6.x on my Kubuntu 12.10 Linux system.
I want to experiment with LibreOffice 4.0.x without putting my
production spreadsheets in jeopardy.
I have been told by a member of our local Linux Users Group that I
need to do two things in order to accomplish this.
1) Install LibreOffice in a different directory.
2) Use a different user settings directory.
I'm not sure what item 2) means or how to accomplish this aside from
creating a separate user on the computer. He tells me that the user
settings directory is usually under ~/.config where I find an empty
directory named libreoffice.
I would appreciate instructions that I can follow to accomplish this.
You do not have to install LO 4.0.x in a different directory. This
is because of the configuration folder for LO and how it is configured.
This folder is located here: /home/<user name>/.config/libreoffice. This
folder has two subfolders: 3 and 4. The configuration files and folders
for 3.6.x are all located in the "3" folder. The configuration files and
folders for 4.0.x are in the "4" folder.
Also, /opt/ contains the files and folders for LibreOffice.
/opt/libreoffice3.6/ contains the files for 3.6 and /opt/libreoffice4.0
contains the files for LO 4.0. I write this because this is what I have
in /opt/ on my hard drive. Presently, I use both of these versions
without any problems.
When version 3.5 was the more stable version and version 3.6.0.2
came out, you had to install 3.6.0.2 in a separate folder. Both would
install the configuration files in /home/<user
name>/.config/libreoffice/3/. They would use the same configuration files.
Hopefully, this will make a little more sense.
--Dan
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