Re: [libreoffice-users] Installing 2 versions of LO on Mac OS X 10.10.1 Yosemite

Hi, Tom:  


> On Jan 21, 2015, at 10:10 AM, Tom Davies <tomcecf@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi :)
> These are unix commands so you find them much the same in Gnu&Linux
> such as Ubuntu, openSuSE, RedHat, Mageia as well as in BSDs such as
> FreeBSD, Mac and others.
>
> cd = Change Directory
> ls = LiSt   = roughly the same as "dir" it gives a list of what is in
> the folder/directory you are in
>
> I think the cd command is a little wrong but ended up doing the right
> thing.  The aim was to get into the "home" folder and you started from
> there anyway so when the instruction didn't give a folder to change
> into you still ended up in the "home" folder.  I think the instruction
> was meant to be
>
> cd ~
>
> or
>
> cd /home/user-name



          Thanks for the reply.  I’m sorry I wasn’t clear:  Before I posted that comment, I tested 
“cd” from different directories and found it to be equivalent to “cd ~” on OS X 10.10.1.  I just 
checked and found that Ubuntu 14.04 LTS produced the same result.  

> but it doesn't matter.  The command;
>
> mkdir -p libreoffice/builds
>
> should MaKe a new directory/folder.  Actually it should create 2 new
> folders.  It should create a folder called "libreoffice" and inside
> that create a sub-folder called "builds”.


          Yes, except that I’m not sure if that was intended to be taken literally:  LibreOffices 
Preferences:  LibreOffice:  Paths says the default path for Documents under OS X is “~/Documents” 
and for everything else is subdirectories of “~/Library/Application Support/LibreOffice/4/user”.  
With LO 4.3.4.1 under Windows 7, it’s essentially the same except that everything else is in 
subdirectories of “~\AppData\Roaming\LibreOffice\4\user”.  


          This suggests to me that I should cd to the “LibreOffice” directory under 
“~/Library/Application Support on my Mac (or “~\AppData\Roaming” under Windows 7) and create rename 
“4” to something like “4352”, then open LO4352 and change all those paths from “4” to “4352” to 
match.  


          Does this make sense?  I haven’t tried it yet, but I plan to if I don’t hear something to 
the contrary first.  


          Thanks again, 
          Spencer 

> There are a lot of guides to help with unix commands but Gnu&Linux
> tends to have a wider range of commands and some of them are slightly
> different from the BSD ones so they just wont work in Mac.  I doubt
> they would cause harm but it's probably worth being cautious.  I think
> you can get a quick-help / cheat-sheet to get an idea of what a
> command does by typing "--help" after the command or "-h".  So now you
> know the 3 commands above you can try;
>
> cd --help
>
> cd -h
>
> ls --help
>
> ls -h
>
> Errr, i'd be cautious about the mkdir command in case it ends up
> creating a folder called "--help" although that probably would not be
> hugely bad anyway.
>
> Regards from
> Tom :)
>
>
>
> On 21 January 2015 at 17:05, Spencer Graves <spencer.graves@prodsyse.com> wrote:
> > > On Jan 21, 2015, at 7:54 AM, Stephan Bergmann <sbergman@redhat.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > On 01/21/2015 10:09 AM, Alex Thurgood wrote:
> > > > Le 21/01/2015 10:02, Stephan Bergmann a écrit :
> > > > > > If you want to later use LO4352, when you start it up, it should only
> > > > > > use the LO4352 user configuration folder (assuming you have named them
> > > > > > the same). I don't thin you can have both running at the same time.
> > > > >
> > > > > Where did you get that idea from?  The location of the user profile is
> > > >
> > > > Probably because that is how it used to work.
> > >
> > > Are you really sure that it ever worked that if you rename LibreOffice.app to Foo.app it will 
> > > then locate its user profile under ~/Library/Application Data/Foo/ instead of 
> > > ~/Library/Application Data/LibreOffice/?  That would surprise me.
> >
> >
> >          See, “https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Installing_in_parallel/OS_X”, referenced in 
> > an earlier email from Alex in this thread:  This describes “New Method” and “Old Method”.  “Old 
> > Method” says, "Up to and including the 3.3.x series, the way to separate configurations on the 
> > Mac simply involved renaming your existing installation user configuration folder to the same 
> > name as the name of the LibreOffice application.”  That doesn’t mean it ever worked, but that 
> > seems to be what is described under “Old Method” ;-)
> >
> >
> >          I’m still having other problems parsing the “New Method”:  A first step says to “cd”, 
> > then run “mkdir -p libreoffice/builds"
> > in a terminal.
> >
> >
> >          Is this correct?  When I “cd” then “ls”, I get the following:
> >
> >
> > Applications    Documents       Library         Music           Public
> > Desktop         Downloads       Movies          Pictures
> >
> >
> >          I don’t see “libreoffice”.  Or is “libreoffice” in “mkdir -p libreoffice/builds” simply 
> > a shorthand for the local LibeOffice installation directory?  If that’s true, then how do I find 
> > the local LibreOffice installation directory?
> >
> >
> >          Thanks so much for all your help.  Sorry for being so dense.
> >
> >
> >          Best Wishes,
> >          Spencer
> >
> >
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