Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Can Libre Office be installed on an external drive. ?
Tempers are getting to high now. We should not attack each other's views on Open Source or MS products. We each have opinions that the other does not like. We should not put people down because their opinion is not ours. For me, I do not like mush of what MS is about. They have some good free products out there. Try I.C.E.. But that should not detract my views on MSO or LO. Using the "M$ fanboy" should not be use as a negative. Swearing should not be done. Every community has their good and bad, whether you deal with people's views or software. There is many things that are great about open source and its community. But open source is not the only answer. To some people it is not their answer. We should not judge people because of their views. We should not judge a community by an individual's views. Die-heart MS users are just like die-heart FOSS people. When you have no room for any other view, it tends not to be good to try to change their views. It also is anti-productive to get into a battle of words with them. So personally, I do not like MS anymore. But they are putting out some interesting, free, stuff once and a while. Also, I do not think open source is the only answer, just part of it. My saying this does not make other opinions less than mine, or better. It is just my opinion and I must accept that other people have other opinion. So EVERYONE, please refrain from name calling and mud slinging. This list is not the place for it. Here we hope to offer help and sometimes opinions. We are not the final word, since there is not such thing. We offer information. We should not put others down for their beliefs. We should be better than that. We must be better than that on this public list. On 09/08/2011 08:26 PM, At0mic wrote: Onyeibo Oku-2 wrote: Looks like we have an M$ fanboy. Perhaps U should try some of those opensource recommendations first and see if they don't perform before taking a side See, this is what I don't like about the open-source community. If I express an opinion that suggests things are NOT completely 100% great about open-source software and that maybe, just MAYBE, Microsoft knows what they're doing with regards to software at times, I'm labelled a fanboy. Jesus fucking Christ look at your self. Microsoft DO make good products at times. If you keep your blinders on and don't accept some people LIKE using something such as Windows 7 for example, open-source software will never compete. I don't understand why I'm now the enemy for not following the religious fevor of some zealots. -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Can-Libre-Office-be-installed-on-an-external-drive-tp3309620p3321574.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Can Libre Office be installed on an external drive. ?
Hi :) Windows and Gnu&Linux can share the same config folder but you might need 2 versions of the extensions you use. You can keep both versions in the same folder as each other. It is better to set-up the Windows side first and then get the Gnu&Linux side to look at the Windows config folder as the Windows side might have extra settings that are not needed in Gnu&Linux. Also Windows is blind to Gnu&Linux file-systems whereas Gnu&Linux can easily read/write Ntfs and Fat32, Fat16 and the rest. I don't think it makes any difference after install but with Gnu&Linux there are at least 2 different installers; Rpm & Deb. It's the same source-code. Like the difference between taking your shopping home by car or bike it's all the same once it's on your shelves. I'm not 100% certain about this tho. One note about splitting usb-sticks into 2 partitions. The Windows one (Ntfs or whatever) needs to be 1st on the stick and needs to be created 1st. If Windows can't find one of it's own partitions at the front of the drive then it assumes the drive is unformatted or corrupted. On normal ide/sata drives and internal SSDs it seems to be ok. Anyway i think this thread was mostly about the various Windows platforms. Regards from Tom :) --- On Fri, 9/9/11, Andreas Säger wrote: From: Andreas Säger Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: Can Libre Office be installed on an external drive. ? To: users@global.libreoffice.org Date: Friday, 9 September, 2011, 7:10 Am 05.09.2011 02:41, Charles E. LaMonte wrote: > Greetings Ladies and Gentlemen, Is it possible to install Libre Office on an > external hard drive ? The computer will have either Windows Operating System > or > Linux Operating System. Thank you. > > If you really want to be prepared for Linux desktops with neither OOo nor LibreOffice and for Windows desktops as well, then you should divide your disk in 2 partitions with one file system for WIndows and another file system for Linux, install http://portableapps.com/de/apps/office/libreoffice_portable on the Windows file system and copy the LibreOffice folder from your Linux installation to the Linux file system. Adjust bootstraprc according to Regina's suggestion and make sure that the user profile is world writable. For the program files read-access is sufficient. Not sure if and how both programs may even share the same user profile. Once upon a time I managed to do this with Thunderbird 1.x. Anyway, with such a disk the respective operating system can mount the respective file system and launch your own copy of LibreOffice if the host system allows for execution from plugged block devices. -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Can Libre Office be installed on an external drive. ?
On 09/09/2011 01:26, At0mic wrote: > Onyeibo Oku-2 wrote: >> Looks like we have an M$ fanboy. Perhaps U should try some of those >> opensource recommendations first and see if they don't perform before >> taking a side >> > See, this is what I don't like about the open-source community. If I express > an opinion that suggests things are NOT completely 100% great about > open-source software and that maybe, just MAYBE, Microsoft knows what > they're doing with regards to software at times, I'm labelled a fanboy. > Sorry for the use of the word "fanboy". Probably not the best description but there seemed to be a biased polarization from the way you compared Thunderbird and Outlook. Read the quote below (you own words): > I notice some people are talking about Thunderbird and other alternatives to > Outlook. It implies that those 'talking' or looking at Thunderbird are making a mistake. Naturally, anybody would ask why? > I should probably remind some people that Outlook is not just a > mail client. It has a Calendar, Tasks manager, voting system, and a few > other titbits that all exist within the same application which gives it a > very high level of integration. And that was the answer. Is that well researched? Comparing products without a fair experience of both is what makes one look like a 'fanboy'. I use Microsoft Products too and as Planas pointed out, their OS hosts fantastic games. As an Architect, I use Autodesk products a lot. We don't have products that compare well with those in Linux world except for Bricsys' BricsCAD (but that's just for traditional 2D drafting). > The problem is that this integration is very > important for a lot of people in the corporate world, and an adhoc bundling > of various applications to do the same stuff but not quite as well > integrated might not sit well with some people, particularly if you can't > give the same level of functionality. Here is where some traces of valid point came in,... but you left it off too soon leaving your subjects to weigh things with the features you mentioned earlier (which is mostly in Thunderbird). However, I'm not sure about Thunderbird is to what extent it can be automated as Outlook (like most M$ product) supports automation via VBA. I am also not sure about collaboration possibilities like with Microsoft Exchange, but that because I haven't looked into those areas. So far, I get all I need from Thunderbird -- especially those you sited as features in Outlook > Jesus fucking Christ look at your self. Microsoft DO make good products at > times. I wasn't disagreeing with that. But I do have a problem with that first sentence. "Jesus" and "Christ" are names held sacred by some people. Putting "fucking" in-between? ...well, please this thread has people from different spheres of life. Consider all. > If you keep your blinders on and don't accept some people LIKE using > something such as Windows 7 for example, open-source software will never > compete. I don't understand why I'm now the enemy for not following the > religious fevor of some zealots. Its like telling the people looking at LibreOffice Calc to consider that M$-Excel has a lot of features that appeal to the corporate world, without recognizing that most of the examples sited to support your POV are actually functional in Calc! -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Can Libre Office be installed on an external drive. ?
On 09/09/2011 01:26, At0mic wrote: > > Onyeibo Oku-2 wrote: >> >> Looks like we have an M$ fanboy. Perhaps U should try some of those >> opensource recommendations first and see if they don't perform before >> taking a side >> > See, this is what I don't like about the open-source community. If I express > an opinion that suggests things are NOT completely 100% great about > open-source software and that maybe, just MAYBE, Microsoft knows what > they're doing with regards to software at times, I'm labelled a fanboy. > Sorry for the use of the word "fanboy". Probably not the best description but there seemed to be a biased polarization from the way you compared Thunderbird and Outlook. Read the quote below (you own words): > I notice some people are talking about Thunderbird and other alternatives to > Outlook. It implies that those 'talking' or looking at Thunderbird are making a mistake. Naturally, anybody would ask why? > I should probably remind some people that Outlook is not just a > mail client. It has a Calendar, Tasks manager, voting system, and a few > other titbits that all exist within the same application which gives it a > very high level of integration. And that was the answer. Is that well researched? Comparing products without a fair experience of both is what makes one look like a 'fanboy'. I use Microsoft Products too and as Planas pointed out, their OS hosts fantastic games. As an Architect, I use Autodesk products a lot. We don't have products that compare well with those in Linux world except for Bricsys' BricsCAD (but that's just for traditional 2D drafting). > The problem is that this integration is very > important for a lot of people in the corporate world, and an adhoc bundling > of various applications to do the same stuff but not quite as well > integrated might not sit well with some people, particularly if you can't > give the same level of functionality. Here is where some traces of valid point came in,... but you left it off too soon leaving your subjects to weigh things with the features you mentioned earlier (which is mostly in Thunderbird). However, I'm not sure about Thunderbird is to what extent it can be automated as Outlook (like most M$ product) supports automation via VBA. I am also not sure about collaboration possibilities like with Microsoft Exchange, but that because I haven't looked into those areas. So far, I get all I need from Thunderbird -- especially those you sited as features in Outlook > Jesus fucking Christ look at your self. Microsoft DO make good products at > times. I wasn't disagreeing with that. But I do have a problem with that first sentence. "Jesus" and "Christ" are names held sacred by some people. Putting "fucking" in-between? ...well, please this thread has people from different spheres of life. Consider all. > If you keep your blinders on and don't accept some people LIKE using > something such as Windows 7 for example, open-source software will never > compete. I don't understand why I'm now the enemy for not following the > religious fevor of some zealots. Its like telling the people looking at LibreOffice Calc to consider that M$-Excel has a lot of features that appeal to the corporate world, without recognizing that most of the examples sited to support your POV are actually functional in Calc! -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Can Libre Office be installed on an external drive. ?
Atomic On Thu, 2011-09-08 at 17:26 -0700, At0mic wrote: > Onyeibo Oku-2 wrote: > > > > Looks like we have an M$ fanboy. Perhaps U should try some of those > > opensource recommendations first and see if they don't perform before > > taking a side > > > See, this is what I don't like about the open-source community. If I express > an opinion that suggests things are NOT completely 100% great about > open-source software and that maybe, just MAYBE, Microsoft knows what > they're doing with regards to software at times, I'm labelled a fanboy. > > Jesus fucking Christ look at your self. Microsoft DO make good products at > times. If you keep your blinders on and don't accept some people LIKE using > something such as Windows 7 for example, open-source software will never > compete. I don't understand why I'm now the enemy for not following the > religious fevor of some zealots. I personally (emphasis personally) prefer and promote FLOSS/Linux when appropriate. However there are situations where Windows applications are better particularly in gaming and some cad/cam software. My objections to Windows is it is relatively slow compared to many Linux distros (I have dual boot system). Also, for me, almost everything I do can be done easily in Linux. But not everyone is a position to were this is true. However, this does not mean that software is automatically bad because MS produced it. Many of the legacy problems in Windows actually can be traced back to IBM blundering when they introduced the PC in 1981. IBM was set to release the PC and did not have an OS, so they asked MS to provide one on short notice. MS located, licensed, and later bought the rights to DOS. Backward compatibility means that some poor design decisions in the original DOS are lingering in Windows to this day. If anyone really wants to point fingers about Windows, ask IBM how they planned for users to use a computer without an OS, I have often wonder about this. -- Jay Lozier jsloz...@gmail.com -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Can Libre Office be installed on an external drive. ?
Hi :) It is great to hear that the portable apps uses a fairly normal folder. I had assumed they hid them in some horribly compressed file on an almost unreachable path. So, this means that a LibreOffice installed on a hard-drive could be made to point at the same config folder on the usb-stick. So, it's only the extensions stored in those folders that might not work on the different platforms. I thought extensions were in the same format on all platforms but apparently not. LibreOffice has such a tiny and insignificant share of the market that MS has not even started to try fighting against it. They will once LO starts to threaten their bottom-line but we are a long way off from that. Although there are a few things that cause us problems they really haven't even flexed yet. Regards from Tom :) --- On Thu, 8/9/11, jebw...@gmail.com wrote: From: jebw...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Can Libre Office be installed on an external drive. ? To: users@global.libreoffice.org Date: Thursday, 8 September, 2011, 16:20 It has never ceased to amaze me how a select few individuals in key positions in corporations are permitted to form a self-sustaining interlocked stance on the use of MS Office suite due to their inability to accept they are able learn other ways of conducting business. MS Office has been constructed to permeate the worlds major corporations because, among other things, it offers this group an easy transition from one company to another. I suspect their main selling point in interviews is that, 'yes' they know how to use Outlook to send email and use its calendar to keep track of which meeting they are supposed to be in next. When consulting on available options they always balk at implementation of more cost effective (read: FREE) platforms and when doing so whine, 'well the other guys all use it'. Of course as they actually voice it in terms like, 'all our business associates use it therefore we must as well'. Self-supporting hogwash. Personally, I stepped away from Office because, when testing Thunderbird ten years ago, found emails deleted in Outlook, were never actually removed from the PST file. They were simply hidden from the User. I suspect those at the executive level, like so many others, are simply reluctant to try a new platform out of fear they won't be able to understand how to use it. Mentality akin to what makes children check under the bed for monsters. Fear. As for Microsoft, if they lost the strangle hold they have gained through the Office Suite of applications. They very well may tumble from the lofty heights and actually have to produce a competitive product. They don't have to do so with their operating systems because of the back room deals made with PC makers by which they enforce their own rule of, 'a PC has to come with an Operating System'. So my reply is tethered properly to this threads topic: Yes, Libre Office can be installed on an External Drive. The folks at PortableApps.com have two 'LibreOffice Portable' packages available. One for English only (120mb DL, 260-413mb installed) and one for all languages (145mb DL, 516-776mb installed). Whose features are described in part as: > LibreOffice Portable is a full-featured office suite that's compatible with > Microsoft Office, Word Perfect, Lotus and other office applications. It's > easy-to-use and feature-rich, performing nearly all of the functions you'd > expect in an office suite, but at no cost. They also offer support on how to copy your local LO settings to LO Portable. It requires Users find and copy: /C:\Documents and Settings\[user]\Application Data\LibreOffice\/ to the LibreOfficePortable\Data\settings\ directory. So the difficulty level requires one find the \LO\data folder on the external drive and perform a copy function. On 9/8/2011 1:55 AM, Bruce Carlson wrote: > -Original Message- > From: At0mic [mailto:atomicbutterfl...@gmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, 8 September 2011 3:57 PM > To: users@global.libreoffice.org > Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: Can Libre Office be installed on an > external drive. ? > >> I notice some people are talking about Thunderbird and other alternatives > to Outlook. I should probably remind some people that Outlook is not just a > mail client. It has a Calendar, Tasks manager, voting system, and>a few > other titbits that all exist within the same application which gives it a > very high level of integration. The problem is that this integration is very > important for a lot of people in the corporate world, and an ad hoc >> bundling of various applications to do the same stuff but not quite as well > integrated might not sit well with some people, particularly if you can't > give the same level of functionality. >
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Can Libre Office be installed on an external drive. ?
It has never ceased to amaze me how a select few individuals in key positions in corporations are permitted to form a self-sustaining interlocked stance on the use of MS Office suite due to their inability to accept they are able learn other ways of conducting business. MS Office has been constructed to permeate the worlds major corporations because, among other things, it offers this group an easy transition from one company to another. I suspect their main selling point in interviews is that, 'yes' they know how to use Outlook to send email and use its calendar to keep track of which meeting they are supposed to be in next. When consulting on available options they always balk at implementation of more cost effective (read: FREE) platforms and when doing so whine, 'well the other guys all use it'. Of course as they actually voice it in terms like, 'all our business associates use it therefore we must as well'. Self-supporting hogwash. Personally, I stepped away from Office because, when testing Thunderbird ten years ago, found emails deleted in Outlook, were never actually removed from the PST file. They were simply hidden from the User. I suspect those at the executive level, like so many others, are simply reluctant to try a new platform out of fear they won't be able to understand how to use it. Mentality akin to what makes children check under the bed for monsters. Fear. As for Microsoft, if they lost the strangle hold they have gained through the Office Suite of applications. They very well may tumble from the lofty heights and actually have to produce a competitive product. They don't have to do so with their operating systems because of the back room deals made with PC makers by which they enforce their own rule of, 'a PC has to come with an Operating System'. So my reply is tethered properly to this threads topic: Yes, Libre Office can be installed on an External Drive. The folks at PortableApps.com have two 'LibreOffice Portable' packages available. One for English only (120mb DL, 260-413mb installed) and one for all languages (145mb DL, 516-776mb installed). Whose features are described in part as: LibreOffice Portable is a full-featured office suite that's compatible with Microsoft Office, Word Perfect, Lotus and other office applications. It's easy-to-use and feature-rich, performing nearly all of the functions you'd expect in an office suite, but at no cost. They also offer support on how to copy your local LO settings to LO Portable. It requires Users find and copy: /C:\Documents and Settings\[user]\Application Data\LibreOffice\/ to the LibreOfficePortable\Data\settings\ directory. So the difficulty level requires one find the \LO\data folder on the external drive and perform a copy function. On 9/8/2011 1:55 AM, Bruce Carlson wrote: -Original Message- From: At0mic [mailto:atomicbutterfl...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, 8 September 2011 3:57 PM To: users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: Can Libre Office be installed on an external drive. ? I notice some people are talking about Thunderbird and other alternatives to Outlook. I should probably remind some people that Outlook is not just a mail client. It has a Calendar, Tasks manager, voting system, and>a few other titbits that all exist within the same application which gives it a very high level of integration. The problem is that this integration is very important for a lot of people in the corporate world, and an ad hoc bundling of various applications to do the same stuff but not quite as well integrated might not sit well with some people, particularly if you can't give the same level of functionality. Outlook is what it is not just for the email side of things. This is precisely why outlook is the only MS application I have installed on my work machines. Apart from development environments, VS 2003,2005,2008& 2010 and what comes bundled with windows stupid I mean windows 7. Most of which I don't use anyway. With the entire company using an MS exchange server and sharing calendars and contacts I'm forced to use outlook. Let's face it, not everything microsoft do is bad. Just most things. The problems with Microsoft come when you have bulk licencing agreements and are forced to install their products to comply with their licences. Then management says "We're paying for the licence, we may as well use it." This makes change very difficult. Cheers, >From Bruce Carlson. -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Can-Libre-Office-be-installed-on-an-ext ernal-drive-tp3309620p3318776.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreof
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Can Libre Office be installed on an external drive. ?
Looks like we have an M$ fanboy. Perhaps U should try some of those opensource recommendations first and see if they don't perform before taking a side I migrated from Outlook to thunderbird (it now comes with Lightning on Fedora). I have my calender, tasks and mails working fine and I'm sure there are a lot of plugins for many other tasks that immigrants would want to use. I was also using evolution for all that until, well, it got too buggy. But before then Evo was just another Outlook. I'm happy with status quo as of now ... Thunderbird is very stable - from twohot@device.mobile :) -Original Message- From: At0mic Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2011 22:56:58 To: Reply-To: users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: Can Libre Office be installed on an external drive. ? I notice some people are talking about Thunderbird and other alternatives to Outlook. I should probably remind some people that Outlook is not just a mail client. It has a Calendar, Tasks manager, voting system, and a few other titbits that all exist within the same application which gives it a very high level of integration. The problem is that this integration is very important for a lot of people in the corporate world, and an ad hoc bundling of various applications to do the same stuff but not quite as well integrated might not sit well with some people, particularly if you can't give the same level of functionality. Outlook is what it is not just for the email side of things. -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Can-Libre-Office-be-installed-on-an-external-drive-tp3309620p3318776.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
RE: [libreoffice-users] Re: Can Libre Office be installed on an external drive. ?
-Original Message- From: At0mic [mailto:atomicbutterfl...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, 8 September 2011 3:57 PM To: users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: Can Libre Office be installed on an external drive. ? >I notice some people are talking about Thunderbird and other alternatives to Outlook. I should probably remind some people that Outlook is not just a mail client. It has a Calendar, Tasks manager, voting system, and >a few other titbits that all exist within the same application which gives it a very high level of integration. The problem is that this integration is very important for a lot of people in the corporate world, and an ad hoc >bundling of various applications to do the same stuff but not quite as well integrated might not sit well with some people, particularly if you can't give the same level of functionality. >Outlook is what it is not just for the email side of things. This is precisely why outlook is the only MS application I have installed on my work machines. Apart from development environments, VS 2003,2005,2008 & 2010 and what comes bundled with windows stupid I mean windows 7. Most of which I don't use anyway. With the entire company using an MS exchange server and sharing calendars and contacts I'm forced to use outlook. Let's face it, not everything microsoft do is bad. Just most things. The problems with Microsoft come when you have bulk licencing agreements and are forced to install their products to comply with their licences. Then management says "We're paying for the licence, we may as well use it." This makes change very difficult. Cheers, >From Bruce Carlson. -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Can-Libre-Office-be-installed-on-an-ext ernal-drive-tp3309620p3318776.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Can Libre Office be installed on an external drive. ?
Hi :) Ahh, i like that one :) I have a tiny usb-stick (150Mb) with a full install of SliTaz on it and a couple of massive (8Gb) ones with Ubuntu. I carefully made it so that Grub installed to the MBR of the usb-stick instead of to sda but they kinda wanted to default to the usb-stick anyway so that was fairly easy :) I am trying to sort a LiveUsb stick with a large enough persistent file that i can install various things i need. It's a struggle because i don't want my boss to notice me setting it up on one of the idle machines at work. Another route might be to have the portable apps version of LibreOffice for use on Windows machines and the 2 main installers for Gnu&Linux, ie the debs and the rpms. Then having the config folder on the usb-stick should hopefully mean that LibreOffice works the same whichever machine you use. The same config folder can be used for both Windows and Gnu&Linux apparently. ~/.libreoffice/3/user or something like that. The trick is trying to find your config folder and then find a way of changing the Tools - Options - LibreOffice - Paths to point at your config folder. Remember to switch it back when you are done if other people use LibreOffice on that machine! Is it possible to have 2 user profiles set in some way? Regards from Tom :) From: nvrk To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Tue, 6 September, 2011 3:38:46 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Can Libre Office be installed on an external drive. ? On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 8:07 AM, Twayne wrote: > In news:loom.20110905t023739-...@post.gmane.org, > Charles E. LaMonte typed: > > Greetings Ladies and Gentlemen, Is it possible to install > > Libre Office on an external hard drive ? The computer > > will have either Windows Operating System or Linux > > Operating System. Thank you. > > Yes. Or course, some parts that must reside on the boot drive will still go > to the boot drive as with any other app. > > > > > -- > For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > > My solution is to install Linux (Ubuntu or Mint in my case) on the external drive. If the computer used does not have a built in external drive boot capability then use PLOP or SuperGrubDisk and boot either of these from the CDRom. nvsoar -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Can Libre Office be installed on an external drive. ?
On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 8:07 AM, Twayne wrote: > In news:loom.20110905t023739-...@post.gmane.org, > Charles E. LaMonte typed: > > Greetings Ladies and Gentlemen, Is it possible to install > > Libre Office on an external hard drive ? The computer > > will have either Windows Operating System or Linux > > Operating System. Thank you. > > Yes. Or course, some parts that must reside on the boot drive will still go > to the boot drive as with any other app. > > > > > -- > For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > > My solution is to install Linux (Ubuntu or Mint in my case) on the external drive. If the computer used does not have a built in external drive boot capability then use PLOP or SuperGrubDisk and boot either of these from the CDRom. nvsoar -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Can Libre Office be installed on an external drive. ?
Hi Andreas,
Andreas Säger schrieb:
Thank you Regina,
Under Linux the file is named bootstraprc and looks like this:
[Bootstrap]
BaseInstallation=${OOO_BASE_DIR}
InstallMode=
ProductKey=LibreOffice 3.3
UserInstallation=$SYSUSERCONFIG/.libreoffice/3
[ErrorReport]
ErrorReportPort=80
ErrorReportServer=
Obviously, $SYSUSERCONFIG points to the respective user's home directory.
Yes.
Where would the following path point to when bootstraprc is in
/media/disk2/libreoffice/program?
UserInstallation=$OOO_BASE_DIR/.libreoffice/3
In other words: Where are the script variables documented? (OOo
documentation seems to be falling apart now)
I don't know. I use the variable $ORIGIN which points to the place where
the bootstap.ini file itself is. Completely
for user directory inside the same folder as the installation
UserInstallation=$ORIGIN/..
or for user directory as neighbor to installation.
UserInstallation=$ORIGIN/../..
Both makes sense for an installation on an external device.
But to make it clear, I have shown methods
(1) Use an already installed soffice.exe and change the call to use your
personal user directory which is on your external device. -> use
parameter -env:Installation=
Addition: Pathes have to be written in special notation for example
-env:UserInstallation=file:///e:/myLO/LOuser
(2) Use an administrative installation on your external device -> change
bootstrap.ini
Kind regards
Regina
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Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Can Libre Office be installed on an external drive. ?
Hi Andreas, Andreas Säger schrieb: Some years ago I copied the /opt/openoffice.org2/ directory to an USB stick and ran /opt/openoffice.org2/program/soffice on another Linux machine which allowed starting executables from external drives. The office started creating a new user profile since there was no profile before. Missing file name associations should not hinder anybody to open the right files with the right program. There must be a configuration setting which lets you reuse the same user profile and extensions on the mobile block device. It is a parameter in the call, for example for Windows program\soffice.exe" -env:UserInstallation=directory> If there is no portable version yet, you can make an administrative installation and tweak the file bootstrap.ini (Windows) to point to a user directory next to the installation. Kind regards Regina -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Can Libre Office be installed on an external drive. ?
Never tried running "directly" from the /opt/ folder[s] on a different drive before. I usually just deal with the "Applications" menu/link system. On 09/05/2011 08:15 AM, Andreas Säger wrote: Some years ago I copied the /opt/openoffice.org2/ directory to an USB stick and ran /opt/openoffice.org2/program/soffice on another Linux machine which allowed starting executables from external drives. The office started creating a new user profile since there was no profile before. Missing file name associations should not hinder anybody to open the right files with the right program. There must be a configuration setting which lets you reuse the same user profile and extensions on the mobile block device. Nevertheless, I think that all Linux desktops have some ODF capable software installed so nobody really needs a mobile version for Linux (apart from macro junkies of course). -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Can-Libre-Office-be-installed-on-an-external-drive-tp3309620p3310700.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
