[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 134849] Libre Office 7.0.0.1 RC1 installation crashes - a renewed installation goes to the wrong folder - Libre office 6.4 doesn't start with renewed installation after uninstall of 7.0.0.1 RC1 - error: vcruntime140_1.dll missing

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=134849

--- Comment #1 from Mike Kaganski <mikekaganski at hotmail.com> ---
Several factors here, and they seem unrelated to each other, the initial crash
being the main (likely random) problem, and others coming from
misunderstanding/confusion.

It looks like you were expecting to have two versions side-by-side by choosing
a different directory. But in fact, no matter which directory you choose, the
installer for RC1 (as any installer built with "release" configuration) would
*replace* any previous installed release version: it will find those older
versions, call their uninstaller in the process of own installation, then
proceed. So in any case, installing into "programme\libreoffice7" would
normally still result in a single version on your system.

This is not the case for alpha and beta installers, that are installed
separately. There is a way to have multiple releases "installed" (actually
unpacked, but not registered) side-by-side [1].

The "an warning ... that i have to close firefox and windows explorer.
this bothers me too": LibreOffice creates several registry keys, installs a
system component (visual c++ redistributable) and an explorer extension (a
library used for e.g. thumbnail display of ODF documents, which may be used not
only in Windows Explorer, but with any Windows-provided file dialog). Another
system-wide thing is fonts it installs. Installer internally builds a list of
all files and registry keys it needs deleting/modifying; and if some process
happens to hold some of them, it notifies you. There's nothing to do here;
previously (many versions ago), it simply told that it needs a restart in the
end - now we made it to show a detailed list, and that creates questions absent
before.

With older version not starting - possibly you just need to reset user profile
[2].

So the only problem here that I see is to test if the scenario when there's an
older version installed in one place, and you try to install into a different
place, results in a reproducible problem. Will try to test it ASAP (but if
someone beats me here, bit thanks - I'm quite busy now, and I don't see this
too pressing).

[1] https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Installing_in_parallel/Windows
[2] https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/UserProfile

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