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From: "Harold Fuchs" <hwfa.gmanenews@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Portable LibreOffice Conflict with OpenOffice
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 11:06:10 +0100
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"Christoph Jopp" <jopp@gmx.de> wrote in message 
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> Hello Harold,
>
>> I installed the new portable LO
>> (http://portableapps.com/apps/office/libreoffice_portable) on a USB
>> stick. When I try to run it, it complains that there is another copy
>> running. It seems that this is because OpenOffice's (non-portable)
>> Quickstarter is running on the machine. Of course, OOo's Quickstarter is
>> running for multiple users who happen to be logged on to the machine
>> (Win XP Pro) so, although I can kill mine, I can't kill the others.
>
> Following your description, this is a behaviour of LibreOffice - so it
> might be the wrong list you are asking on.
>
>>
>> Is it right that a *portable* version should be prevented from running
>> by a mere office application (not anti virus or lock-down software or
>> parental control or anything similar) installed on the machine? Is it
>> right that a *portable* program should be prevented from running by some
>> process owned by another *non-admin* user? Is it right that LO is
>> interfered with by OOo? Or is at least one of these a bug?
>
> I might not know LibreOffice well enough, so consider the following as
> "wild guess" please.
> The interference seems to come from the big similarity of OpenOffice.org
> and LibreOffice.
> LibreOffice seems to use an unaltered method of OpenOffice.org to look
> for a running Office before running an installation (or starting a new
> instance). So LO is looking for a running version of itself and
> recognizes the running OOo as such version.
>
>>
>> Why should I not be able to run LO and OOo at the same time on the same
>> machine?
>
> Nothing stands against it politically, but technically they are
> depending on too similar, if not the same, services, libraries ...
>
> But I fear, there's nothing Apache OpenOffice could do here and I think
> the vendor of the product you are trying to use would be the better
> place to ask for a solution.
>
>>
>> Harold Fuchs
>> London, England
>>
> Hope I could help you anyway
>
> Christoph Jopp

You are right, wrong group. Sorry.

Harold Fuchs
London, England 


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