[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 142894] Installing a second version of LibO removes previous one.

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=142894

V Stuart Foote <vstuart.foote at utsa.edu> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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         Resolution|---                         |NOTABUG
             Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |RESOLVED
                 CC|                            |vstuart.foote at utsa.edu

--- Comment #1 from V Stuart Foote <vstuart.foote at utsa.edu> ---
A full install of LibreOffice on Windows will write into the windows registry.
You can not have multiple full installations--period!

If you need both, one must be a /A administrative installation done from
command line [1], and then modifying the installation's program/bootstrap.ini
'UserInstallation=' stanza. 

Modify the $SYSUSERCONFIG value to point to an alternate location that its
default '$SYSUSERCONFIG/LibreOffice/4' which places profile into the Windows
$APPDATA library 

so typically "C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\LibreOffice\4"

You don't want two versions of LibreOffice pointing at one user profile! Modify
the SYSUSERCONFIG path to add an additional default profile.

Those of us doing QA will use a 'UserInstallation=$ORIGIN/../Data/settings' to
put each LibreOffice nightly user profile into a selfcontained directory (that
is deleted when the /A install is purged or pushed to archive).

=-ref-=
[1] If 7.0.5.2 is installed, issue command 'msiexec.exe /a 
LibreOffice_7.1.4.2_Win_x64.msi TARGETDIR="C:\my_Program_Files\LO7142"' this
will extract the installation into a directory which is fully functional as a
"parallel" installation.

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