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Tom et al.,
I looked at this a while back and discovered that on my Slackware system, LO and AOO are installed into separate sub-directories in /opt, with symlinks in /usr/bin with different names pointing to the appropriate soffice. soffice seems to be some sort of legacy name from the old Star Office days. I, too, wonder why it is not changed to be something more unique. However, I am not privy to the inner workings of these programs nor organizations. The symlinks are an adequate work-around.
Girvin Herr


On 10/04/2016 08:35 AM, Tom Davies wrote:
Hi :)
Thanks :)  I think it used to be quite noticeable.  Whichever one was open
first (including quick-starter if that was enabled) would stay fine but the
2nd instance wouldn't open, or would get part-way open and then crash.

I think the problem was caused by LibreOffice and OpenOffice (and i think
the various forks which have now mostly merged back into LO or AOO afaik)
using the same command to open;
soffice
Since this would attempt to re-open the same program/suite in the same
program-folder but also trying to be whichever one you'd tried to open 2nd
it would all get very confusing for the poor machine.  It's possibly
entirely different from that but that is the way i understood it at the
time from various people trying to explain it.

So if you've not noticed that sort of thing happening then you are probably
fine.
Regards from
Tom :)

On 1 October 2016 at 12:18, James Knott <james.knott@rogers.com> wrote:

On 09/30/2016 11:21 AM, V Stuart Foote wrote:
TomD wrote
There is no harm in having both LibreOffice and OpenOffice installed
alongside each other.
...
Actually they do not get along all that well, but will coexist if you
perform a custom installation and disable the "Quick Starter" feature
from
in the Optional Components section both--and also clear the "File Type"
dialog of checks to not assign a program association.


I have both installed on both Linux and Windows.  No issues I've noticed.


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