Bug 36575 - Allow parallel installation of Beta and stable releases
Summary: Allow parallel installation of Beta and stable releases
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 36437
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Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Installation (show other bugs)
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Hardware: Other All
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Reported: 2011-04-25 03:23 UTC by Ed
Modified: 2011-04-25 03:57 UTC (History)
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Description Ed 2011-04-25 03:23:53 UTC 
Currently installing 3.4 Beta versions overwrites any previously installed stable versions.  This happens with both the Windows and DEB packages (I have not tested the RPM or MacOS versions), and the Windows package removed the stable installation even if I tell it to install in a different folder.

It is important to be able to have a stable version installed at the same time as the beta version to:
1.  Compare the two versions to see if bugs are new;
2.  To do serious work that the current Beta is not suitable for.

OOo has always allowed this, with stable versions being installed as "OpenOffice.org" and developer released as "OOo-DEV".  Can LO do something similar, installing beta builds as something like "LO-DEV"?
Comment 1 Christian Lohmaier 2011-04-25 03:56:27 UTC 
Thanks - has already been reported (but admittedly with a not-so-good title)

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 36437 ***
Comment 2 Christian Lohmaier 2011-04-25 03:57:02 UTC 
closing duplicate