Hi :) It should be fine in Ubuntu 12.04. I'm not sure why people are talking about Windows but this guide covers both anyway https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Installing_in_parallel
(to answer my own questions it's probably because there's been a lot of traffic on-list so people have to skim through quickly and most questions tend to be about Windows) Good luck and regards from Tom :) >________________________________ > From: Kolbjørn Stuestøl <kolbjo...@stuestoel.no> >To: users@global.libreoffice.org >Sent: Sunday, 27 January 2013, 11:28 >Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Installing 4.0 alongside 3.5 > >Den 26.01.2013 22:59, skreiv upscope: >> On Saturday, January 26, 2013 08:02:34 PM Johnny Rosenberg wrote: >>> For some reasons I want to try the upcoming version 4.0. On the web >>> page, they say ”You are not recommended to use LibreOffice pre-release >>> builds for "mission-critical" purposes”. So obviously I need a stable >>> version as well, like the 3.5.7.2 that I have installed right now. >>> >>> So I presume that I can use both versions at the same time, that they >>> are ”isolated” from each other as long as 4.0 is a pre-release, right? >>> >>> But before I'm going to install it, I want to know rather than just assume… >>> >>> So, is it possible? If so, can I just install the debs (operating >>> system=Ubuntu 12.04) and it will just work? Will I be able to run both >>> versions at the same time safely? >>> >>> >>> Johnny Rosenberg >> In the Linux enviroment I have 3.6.3 (openSUSE verssion), 3.6.4 and 4.0-dev >> (from libreoffice download page0 all installed and running together at times. >> install generated the icons and i Just select the one for the version I want. >> Will as long at each version has a different name. >> >> Not sure about the windows versions, I'll leave that to one of the Windows >> users. >> Russ >No problem in Windows. >As a translator I am running version 3.6.4.3 and version 4.0.0.0.beta2 >(together with MS Excel) at the same time without any conflicts. >Kolbjoern > > > -- 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
