Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Printing from Linux, Kubuntu/Ubuntu

marianne-x wrote:
> Phillip Jordan should be plenty embarrassed when/if he figures out what
> he is doing that he is not telling us.
>
> He says he is "downloading all 13,238k" of LibreOffice 4.2.
>
> My download of 4.2.8.2 last night was of 215,400 kb, plus 5432 kb for
> the helppack, so of course nothing will work for him.

Perhaps his download failed and was cut short - in which case he could 
try downloading again (from libreoffice.org).

> We still have no explanation of what he thinks he may need to buy in
> order to install LO.
>
> He finds no "installation wizard", so let's try saying this a different
> way:
>
> After downloading the right file from the right site, you should find a
> file named: libreoffice_4.2.8_win_x86.msi in whatever subdirectory your
> downloads go to. If you opted for the helppack, then you should find a
> 2nd file: libreoffice_4.2.8_win_x86_helppack_en-us.msi there also.
> Search for them if you've lost track of where they've been stashed.
>
> If they are not at least close to the sizes given, something has already
> gone awry.
>
> These .msi files are executable; one must needs only double-click (in a
> /Curtains/ system) on one or the other (the big one first, usually) to
> start them running. The resulting screen messages should guide one the
> rest of the way.
>
> If you are expecting some magic/just because/ you downloaded the
> programme, it won't happen. You have to initiate the execution of the
> .msi file.
>
> Whilst we're on the topic, I'd be interested if anyone has a suggestion
> pertinent to my particular difficulty: I have to run LO Portable from a
> USB stick, because the regular programme refuses to install on this
> /Curtains 7/ machine, reporting: "Error 1325 fingerprint is not a valid
> short filename", and not giving any information as to how one might
> resolve whatever problem LO is having. This has persisted through many
> versions, for about 2 years now, and so is not some transient phenomenon.
>
> There are no "fingerprint" file names, short or long, on the system, but
> there are two empty subdirectories, associated with OpenOffice, that
> have that name.

I assume by "Curtains 7" you mean "Windows 7" (perhaps a literal 
translation?) I've never come across that "fingerprint" problem on 
Windows Vista. What are the exact paths to those subdirectories ?(i.e. 
everything from C:\... up to \fingerprint\) As you say they're empty, 
have you tried simply deleting them? If you do, does that solve the 
problem, or do they come back again?

> There has been a lot of happy talk on this list lately about running
> multiple versions of LO in parallel, which is just what one wants to do
> in order to act as a useful tester. Perhaps that notion applies to mac
> and linux systems only. Whatever the case, attempting to set up such a
> parallel system on /Curtains 7/, loading the second version onto a USB
> stick (which I naively thought would provide adequate isolation), was
> the cause of my LO downfall, from which I have never recovered.

Instructions for setting up a parallel install on Windows are at 
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Installing_in_parallel/Windows - 
basically you can either use a tool to manage the installs, or specify 
additional options on the command line when starting the installer. You 
may also want to keep the user configuration ("profile") folders 
separate for different versions.

Just installing the normal versions to a USB stick might not give the 
isolation you need, as they'd all use the same user configuration folder 
under your Windows profile's folder. You mentioned the portable version 
earlier, and installing a different version of that to a USB stick 
should be OK, as it keeps the configuration in the application folder.

If you're only ever using the portable version on one PC, and don't 
actually take the USB stick to different PCs to use LibreOffice, you 
could install LibreOffice Portable onto the hard disk of that PC. 
Provided each portable version is installed to a different folder, they 
should still be isolated. I don't know if you can have two different 
versions running at the same time; you might have to exit one before 
starting another, but having several portable versions installed and 
switching between them shouldn't be a problem.

> trj

Mark.


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