Issue 23065 - No upgrade option for installation
Summary: No upgrade option for installation
Status: CLOSED IRREPRODUCIBLE
Alias: None
Product: Installation
Classification: Application
Component: ui (show other issues)
Version: current
Hardware: All All
: P3 Trivial (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Olaf Felka
QA Contact: issues@installation
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Reported: 2003-12-01 16:07 UTC by Unknown
Modified: 2003-12-08 10:41 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Issue Type: DEFECT
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Description Unknown 2003-12-01 16:07:36 UTC 
The only mecahnism for upgrading an OOo installation is to install a parallel
version. No provision is made for replacing the currently installed version with
a newer one.

Users are left to determine what configuration settings or files need to be
copied to the new version. Tedious to do even for a single user. Major headache
for sites with large installed base of OOo users.

The documentation on upgrades is terse. And sysadmins have to resort to emailing
one or more of the OOo lists to be told that only parallel installations are
possible. The FAQs listed on the OOo web site are minimalistic and implicitly
Microsoft-centric. No information is given on what, if anything, needs to be
transfered to the parallel environment so user(s) is unaware of the upgrade.
Comment 1 Olaf Felka 2003-12-01 16:28:44 UTC 
There is an update feature for OOo: 1.0.x can be updated with 1.1.x.
Same versions can't be updated. Works as designed. Documentation is a
different thing and has nothing to do with the installation.
Comment 2 Unknown 2003-12-01 16:40:48 UTC 
So you're saying, in your role as a OOo team member, that it is
possible to upgrade an installed version of OOo without having to
install a parallel version first? Or do you mean that the "upgrade"
path is to install a parallel version, copy/edit all necessary config
files, change users' setups, delete original version? If the latter
that ain't an upgrade that's a parallel install.
Comment 3 Olaf Felka 2003-12-02 08:38:05 UTC 
It is possible to update an existing 1.0.x with 1.1.x. You don't have
to install 1.1.0 paralell. It is not possible to update 1.1.0 with
1.1.1 or 1.0.2 with 1.0.3.
Comment 4 Olaf Felka 2003-12-08 10:41:31 UTC 
OOo 1.1.0 has an update feature.