Many thanks Dan, that was exactly the pointer I needed. Dan
On 10/03/2022 13:12, Dan Lewis wrote: > It is the last line of bootstrap.ini that needs to be modified. This is > something that I have been doing for a very long time. This is the line: > > UserInstallation=$SYSUSERCONFIG/libreoffice/4. > > Since I am using Ubuntu, this is in the bootstraprc file. What I have > been doing is to change the 4 to the version including major changes. > For example, this is the line I use for 7.3.1.3: > > UserInstallation=$SYSUSERCONFIG/libreoffice/7.3. > > For the 7.2.6.1, I use 7.2 instead of 7.3. This allows me to set the > properties for these installations completely different. For example, > one was used to open an embedded database while the other was used to > connect to an HSQLDB version 2.+ when I needed to do so. Even so, I > would not guarantee the results on windows since I have stopped using it. > > Dan > > On 3/10/22 7:11 AM, Dave Barton wrote: >> MS have set their attack (so called security) software to cripple the >> excellent Separate Install GUI program (Se Bug 147831). Now I have to >> manually set up parallel installs of different versions. Unfortunately, >> installing 7.3.1.3 and 7.2.6.2 in parallel causes them to create >> unwanted common profiles. I suspect that the bootstrap.ini needs to be >> modified to prevent this, but I am not sure what needs to be >> added/changed in the ini file. Here are my bootstrap.ini files: >> >> LibreOffice Fresh 7.3.1.3 >> "C:\Program Files\LibreOffice\program\soffice.exe" >> [Bootstrap] >> InstallMode=<installmode> >> ProductKey=LibreOffice 7.3 >> UserInstallation=$SYSUSERCONFIG/LibreOffice/4 >> >> LibreOffice Still 7.2.6.2 >> "E:\LibreOffice 7.2.6.2\program\soffice.exe" >> [Bootstrap] >> InstallMode=<installmode> >> ProductKey=LibreOffice 7.2 >> UserInstallation=$SYSUSERCONFIG/LibreOffice/4 >> >> LibreOfficeDev 7.4.0.0.alpha0 >> "E:\LibreOffice 7.4.0-A0\program\soffice.exe" >> [Bootstrap] >> InstallMode=<installmode> >> ProductKey=LibreOfficeDev 7.4 >> UserInstallation=$SYSUSERCONFIG/LibreOfficeDev/4 >> >> Obviously a VM is a kludge workaround that I prefer to avoid. >> >> Any pointers would be welcome. >> >> Dave >> > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
