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seanspotatobusiness
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 Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2006 3:38 am Post subject: OpenOffice.org 2.0 Installation Files on my desktop |
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| What do I do with the "OpenOffice.org 2.0 Installation Files" on my desktop? What did you do with yours? |
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hol.sten
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| Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2006 4:03 am Post subject: Re: OpenOffice.org 2.0 Installation Files on my desktop |
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| username132 wrote: | | What do I do with the "OpenOffice.org 2.0 Installation Files" on my desktop? What did you do with yours? |
First I used them to install OOo 2.0.x. After that I deleted them all. I just kept the downloaded OOo file to reinstall OOo if needed.
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Faith007
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| Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2006 12:42 pm Post subject: Installation files |
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Holsten:
And that doesn't cause any problems? I mean, that's the standard procedure that everyone is supposed to follow after doing an install? Is there a help file that describes this? |
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Gabor
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| Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2006 2:48 pm Post subject: need them for... |
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You will need them when you want to repair or remove your installation.
I always keep them until the next version comes out and, since I never install atop the former version I use these to uninstall. When the next version works all right I trash the former one's downloaded file and installation files. It is never good to keep much crap on the desktop, anyhow. |
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hol.sten
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| Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2006 1:37 am Post subject: Re: Installation files |
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| Faith007 wrote: | | And that doesn't cause any problems? |
It never caused any problems on my computer.
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hol.sten
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| Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2006 1:40 am Post subject: Re: need them for... |
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| Gabor wrote: | | You will need them when you want to repair or remove your installation. |
I've never needed the installation files to remove an OpenOffice.org installation. I simply call "Software" from my Windows "System settings" and select "Remove" besides OOo. No problem.
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JohnV
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| Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2006 9:02 am Post subject: |
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hol.sten,
I'm of the keep the files variety but I never let the installer unpack to the desktop which is just the default.
The question is can you do a Repair or Modify once you have deleted them? If the answer is "yes", then did you keep the original installation file? |
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hol.sten
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| Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2006 9:16 am Post subject: |
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| JohnV wrote: | | The question is can you do a Repair or Modify once you have deleted them? |
I never needed to repair or modify my installation. So I never tried it.
| JohnV wrote: | | did you keep the original installation file? |
As I already wrote in this thread: Yes, I'm keeping the downloaded OOo installation file. I guess that I have to unpack this file to do a repair or a modify.
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