{"id":674,"date":"2012-08-25T17:42:41","date_gmt":"2012-08-25T16:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xenonique.co.uk\/blog\/?p=674"},"modified":"2012-08-25T17:42:41","modified_gmt":"2012-08-25T16:42:41","slug":"installation-of-libreoffice-3-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xenonique.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/08\/25\/installation-of-libreoffice-3-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Installation of LibreOffice 3.6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently had the pleasure of Installing <strong>Libre Office 3.6<\/strong> on a recent Windows 64 bit system.<\/p>\n<p>First, I found it does install. If you have a previous Libre Office instance on the machine, the installer fails with a message like<br \/>\n<em>&#8220;stop the quickstarter before the installer can continue&#8221;<\/em>. Can the installer not do this computing task for me instead?<\/p>\n<p>Ok, I opened up Task Manager \/ Process Explorer to kill any processes <code>soffice.exe<\/code>,<code>soffice.bin<\/code>. There were none to kill. I tried the installer again, same error. <\/p>\n<p>Next, I tried the <em>Control Program<\/em> and attempted to manually uninstall LibreOffice 3.4. The same error again. <\/p>\n<p>Next, I tried opening an <em>Adminstrator Command Shell<\/em>, and from the wisdom of other users on Internet, and entered this command.<\/p>\n<p>C:\\Users\\peter\\Downloads&gt; msiexec.exe -i LibO_3.6.0_Win_x86_install_multi.msi<\/p>\n<p>Regrettably, the same error occurred again. I was about to give up, however I went back to the Control Panel and the Program and Features. This time I chose <code>Modify<\/code> for Libre Office 3.4. I was then able to <em>Change<\/em>, <em>Repair <\/em>and finally remove the offending version, fully. I went back to the Adminstrator DOS Command shell and used that msiexec command again. LibreOffice 3.6 installed.<\/p>\n<p>The lesson is try, try and try again until you succeed. Really, LibreOffice should just fix their broken Win 64 installer. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently had the pleasure of Installing Libre Office 3.6 on a recent Windows 64 bit system. First, I found it does install. If you have a previous Libre Office instance on the machine, the installer fails with a message like &#8220;stop the quickstarter before the installer can continue&#8221;. Can the installer not do this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[90,59,77,85,57],"tags":[146,145,147],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xenonique.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xenonique.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xenonique.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xenonique.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xenonique.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=674"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.xenonique.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":708,"href":"https:\/\/www.xenonique.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674\/revisions\/708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xenonique.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xenonique.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xenonique.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}