[Libreoffice] LibreOffice 3.5RC2 installation on Windows

Andras Timar timar74 at gmail.com
Thu Feb 2 04:36:25 PST 2012


Hi Dag,

2012/2/2 Dag Wieers <dag at wieers.com>:
> Hi,
>
> When installing LibreOffice 3.5RC2 on Windows 7 with LibreOffice 3.4.4
> already installed. The installer checks the system before initiating the
> installation and then complains about a LibreOffice or LibreOffice
> Quickstart instance running (possibly by another user) and advises to close
> any LibreOffice 3.4 instances.
>
> However no LibreOffice instances are running at all. And there are no other
> users on this test system anyway. So the check is doing an incorrect test.
> Even Sysinternals Process Explorer does not see any LibreOffice or
> unidentified processes, so I am pretty sure the installer is making the
> wrong conclusion, or providing me with an incorrect error message.
>
> After uninstalling the LibreOffice 3.4.4, the 3.5RC2 installer does not
> complain and proceeds with the installation as expected.
>

Thanks for reporting, however, it is a known bug, even mentioned in
the release notes
(https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/3.5). The bug was
fixed in 3.4.5.

Best regards,
Andras


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