Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Trial of LibreOffice

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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