[libreoffice-users] Re: Can't install LibreOffice

On 03/08/2012 11:43 AM, Frank Bonar wrote:
> I have downloaded LibO_3.5.0_Win_x86_install_multi(2).msi, but
> installation fails.
>
> After I give User Account Control permission to install, the Install
> Wizard opens, showing a progress bar, and saying installation may
> take several minutes.   The progress bar remains blank, and a dialog
> box opens, saying "Please exit LibreOffice 3.5 and the LibreOffice
> Quickstarter before you continue...."
>
> As LibreOffice is not yet installed, I am at a loss to know how to
> proceed.   If I simply wait, nothing happens;  if I close the dialog
> box, the Install Wizard quits, saying my installation has not been
> changed.
>
> Help, please!
>
> (I am running Vista Home Premium, and I have Open Office installed,
> in case this gives a clue.)

Looks like you've run into these:
<https://www.libreoffice.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=46111>
[install incorrectly claims LibreOffice/Quickstarter is running and aborts]

That bug has been marked as a duplicate of this one:
<https://www.libreoffice.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=36677>
[Uninstall Problems with MSI on Windows 7 64bit]




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