Re: [libreoffice-users] Parallel Install 7.2 +7.3

Many thanks Dan, that was exactly the pointer I needed.

Dan

On 10/03/2022 13:12, Dan Lewis wrote:
> It is the last line of bootstrap.ini that needs to be modified. This is
> something that I have been doing for a very long time. This is the line:
>
>                UserInstallation=$SYSUSERCONFIG/libreoffice/4.
>
> Since I am using Ubuntu, this is in the bootstraprc file. What I have
> been doing is to change the 4 to the version including major changes.
> For example, this is the line I use for 7.3.1.3:
>
>                UserInstallation=$SYSUSERCONFIG/libreoffice/7.3.
>
> For the 7.2.6.1, I use 7.2 instead of 7.3. This allows me to set the
> properties for these installations completely different. For example,
> one was used to open an embedded database while the other was used to
> connect to an HSQLDB version 2.+ when I needed to do so. Even so, I
> would not guarantee the results on windows since I have stopped using it.
>
> Dan
>
> On 3/10/22 7:11 AM, Dave Barton wrote:
> > MS have set their attack (so called security) software to cripple the
> > excellent Separate Install GUI program (Se Bug 147831). Now I have to
> > manually set up parallel installs of different versions. Unfortunately,
> > installing 7.3.1.3 and 7.2.6.2 in parallel causes them to create
> > unwanted common profiles. I suspect that the bootstrap.ini needs to be
> > modified to prevent this, but I am not sure what needs to be
> > added/changed in the ini file. Here are my bootstrap.ini files:
> >
> > LibreOffice Fresh 7.3.1.3
> > "C:\Program Files\LibreOffice\program\soffice.exe"
> > [Bootstrap]
> > InstallMode=<installmode>
> > ProductKey=LibreOffice 7.3
> > UserInstallation=$SYSUSERCONFIG/LibreOffice/4
> >
> > LibreOffice Still 7.2.6.2
> > "E:\LibreOffice 7.2.6.2\program\soffice.exe"
> > [Bootstrap]
> > InstallMode=<installmode>
> > ProductKey=LibreOffice 7.2
> > UserInstallation=$SYSUSERCONFIG/LibreOffice/4
> >
> > LibreOfficeDev 7.4.0.0.alpha0
> > "E:\LibreOffice 7.4.0-A0\program\soffice.exe"
> > [Bootstrap]
> > InstallMode=<installmode>
> > ProductKey=LibreOfficeDev 7.4
> > UserInstallation=$SYSUSERCONFIG/LibreOfficeDev/4
> >
> > Obviously a VM is a kludge workaround that I prefer to avoid.
> >
> > Any pointers would be welcome.
> >
> > Dave


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