Hi, Tom:
Thanks again for the reply.
I did “cd ~/Library/Application Support/LibreOffice”, then "mv 4
4352”. That worked. However, I was unable to edit any of the paths in
LibreOffice (LO4352) to anything that made sense to me, e.g., like to
subfolders of “~/Library/Application Support/LibreOffice/4352/user”. In
LibreOffice: Preferences: LibreOffice: Paths, I can click on, e.g.,
AutoCorrect, than Edit. This shows a path list of
“/Users/sbgraves/Library/Application Support/LibreOffice/4/autocorr”. I’d like
to change “4” to “4352”. I can’t find a way to do that. Clicking on it
doesn’t help. I can click on of the paths, then click “Add”. This opens in
different places for different paths. I’m new to Mac OS X, and I’ve so far
failed to understand how to navigate to where I want with the alternatives I’m
given.
I successfully did "mkdir -p libreoffice/builds”, as described in
“https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Installing_in_parallel/OS_X";. Then “cd
~/Library/Application Support/LibreOffice” and "cp -r 4352
~/libreoffice/builds/“ created copies of all the subdirectories of the former
“4” subdirectory within the new "~/libreoffice/builds/“. And I was able to
redirect some but not all of the paths to the new subdirectories of 4352.
With this, I was able to install LO 4.3.4.1 and run it. It seemed to
work (though “quit unexpectedly” with Tools -> Solver; however, that’s a
separate issue).
Thanks again,
Spencer
> On Jan 21, 2015, at 2:17 PM, Tom Davies <tomc...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi :)
> I think the intention is to unpack and build the program in the new
> folder and then install or move the program to the place it should be.
> Maybe. However I haven't read through the rest of the instructions.
> Regards from
> Tom :)
>
>
> On 21 January 2015 at 20:19, Spencer Graves <spencer.gra...@prodsyse.com>
> wrote:
>> Hi, Tom:
>>
>>
>>> On Jan 21, 2015, at 10:10 AM, Tom Davies <tomc...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi :)
>>> These are unix commands so you find them much the same in Gnu&Linux
>>> such as Ubuntu, openSuSE, RedHat, Mageia as well as in BSDs such as
>>> FreeBSD, Mac and others.
>>>
>>> cd = Change Directory
>>> ls = LiSt = roughly the same as "dir" it gives a list of what is in
>>> the folder/directory you are in
>>>
>>> I think the cd command is a little wrong but ended up doing the right
>>> thing. The aim was to get into the "home" folder and you started from
>>> there anyway so when the instruction didn't give a folder to change
>>> into you still ended up in the "home" folder. I think the instruction
>>> was meant to be
>>>
>>> cd ~
>>>
>>> or
>>>
>>> cd /home/user-name
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks for the reply. I’m sorry I wasn’t clear: Before I posted
>> that comment, I tested “cd” from different directories and found it to be
>> equivalent to “cd ~” on OS X 10.10.1. I just checked and found that Ubuntu
>> 14.04 LTS produced the same result.
>>
>>>
>>> but it doesn't matter. The command;
>>>
>>> mkdir -p libreoffice/builds
>>>
>>> should MaKe a new directory/folder. Actually it should create 2 new
>>> folders. It should create a folder called "libreoffice" and inside
>>> that create a sub-folder called "builds”.
>>
>>
>> Yes, except that I’m not sure if that was intended to be taken
>> literally: LibreOffices Preferences: LibreOffice: Paths says the default
>> path for Documents under OS X is “~/Documents” and for everything else is
>> subdirectories of “~/Library/Application Support/LibreOffice/4/user”. With
>> LO 4.3.4.1 under Windows 7, it’s essentially the same except that everything
>> else is in subdirectories of “~\AppData\Roaming\LibreOffice\4\user”.
>>
>>
>> This suggests to me that I should cd to the “LibreOffice” directory
>> under “~/Library/Application Support on my Mac (or “~\AppData\Roaming” under
>> Windows 7) and create rename “4” to something like “4352”, then open LO4352
>> and change all those paths from “4” to “4352” to match.
>>
>>
>> Does this make sense? I haven’t tried it yet, but I plan to if I
>> don’t hear something to the contrary first.
>>
>>
>> Thanks again,
>> Spencer
>>
>>>
>>> There are a lot of guides to help with unix commands but Gnu&Linux
>>> tends to have a wider range of commands and some of them are slightly
>>> different from the BSD ones so they just wont work in Mac. I doubt
>>> they would cause harm but it's probably worth being cautious. I think
>>> you can get a quick-help / cheat-sheet to get an idea of what a
>>> command does by typing "--help" after the command or "-h". So now you
>>> know the 3 commands above you can try;
>>>
>>> cd --help
>>>
>>> cd -h
>>>
>>> ls --help
>>>
>>> ls -h
>>>
>>> Errr, i'd be cautious about the mkdir command in case it ends up
>>> creating a folder called "--help" although that probably would not be
>>> hugely bad anyway.
>>>
>>> Regards from
>>> Tom :)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 21 January 2015 at 17:05, Spencer Graves <spencer.gra...@prodsyse.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Jan 21, 2015, at 7:54 AM, Stephan Bergmann <sberg...@redhat.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On 01/21/2015 10:09 AM, Alex Thurgood wrote:
>>>>>> Le 21/01/2015 10:02, Stephan Bergmann a écrit :
>>>>>>>> If you want to later use LO4352, when you start it up, it should only
>>>>>>>> use the LO4352 user configuration folder (assuming you have named them
>>>>>>>> the same). I don't thin you can have both running at the same time.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Where did you get that idea from? The location of the user profile is
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Probably because that is how it used to work.
>>>>>
>>>>> Are you really sure that it ever worked that if you rename
>>>>> LibreOffice.app to Foo.app it will then locate its user profile under
>>>>> ~/Library/Application Data/Foo/ instead of ~/Library/Application
>>>>> Data/LibreOffice/? That would surprise me.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> See,
>>>> “https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Installing_in_parallel/OS_X”,
>>>> referenced in an earlier email from Alex in this thread: This describes
>>>> “New Method” and “Old Method”. “Old Method” says, "Up to and including
>>>> the 3.3.x series, the way to separate configurations on the Mac simply
>>>> involved renaming your existing installation user configuration folder to
>>>> the same name as the name of the LibreOffice application.” That doesn’t
>>>> mean it ever worked, but that seems to be what is described under “Old
>>>> Method” ;-)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I’m still having other problems parsing the “New Method”: A first
>>>> step says to “cd”, then run “mkdir -p libreoffice/builds"
>>>> in a terminal.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Is this correct? When I “cd” then “ls”, I get the following:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Applications Documents Library Music Public
>>>> Desktop Downloads Movies Pictures
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I don’t see “libreoffice”. Or is “libreoffice” in “mkdir -p
>>>> libreoffice/builds” simply a shorthand for the local LibeOffice
>>>> installation directory? If that’s true, then how do I find the local
>>>> LibreOffice installation directory?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks so much for all your help. Sorry for being so dense.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Best Wishes,
>>>> Spencer
>>>>
>>>>
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