Re: [Libreoffice] Installing beta versions replacing stable versions

2011-04-25 Thread Ed. Drinkwater
Ed: Would you please search for a bug report covering this topic - and if there is none, create one? I have raised issue https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36575, "Allow parallel installation of Beta and stable releases" And we need to add a warning to our homepage, that standard i

Re: [Libreoffice] Installing beta versions replacing stable versions

2011-04-22 Thread Ed. Drinkwater
What is that supposed to mean? It certainly doesn't sound like a coherent, constructive contribution to the issue! What "help" do you need? I am not the one who compiles that packages, so I am not in a position to change settings that have to be changed while compiling. When the code for L

Re: [Libreoffice] Installing beta versions replacing stable versions

2011-04-22 Thread Ed. Drinkwater
Not sure how I could help. I'm not a programmer, but as I understand it settings like where to install and whether to replace other packages are set when compiling the product. I'm not sure how anyone other than the person compiling the packages can help, or indeed why any help is needed. To

[Libreoffice] Installing beta versions replacing stable versions

2011-04-22 Thread Ed. Drinkwater
I downloaded 3.4 Beta 1 and 3.4 Bata 2 under Windows 7, and in both cases installing the beta version overwrote the stable version I already had installed, and even if I set it to install in a different folder the installer still removed the stable version. Similarly installing the DEB package