Using NeoOffice Outside of /Applications

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====Installation and Patching Instructions:==== ====Installation and Patching Instructions:====
-#Install Neo/J in <tt>/Applications</tt> for the first time ('''Don't launch it''').+#Install NeoOffice/J in <tt>/Applications</tt> for the first time ('''Don't launch it''').
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-#Immediately move Neo/J to your USB key or other disk.+#Immediately move NeoOffice/J to your USB key or other disk.
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-#'''Never rename''' your USB key or other disk once you have ever launched Neo/J.+#'''Never rename''' your USB key or other disk once you have '''ever''' launched NeoOffice/J.
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#Copy <tt>~/Library/NeoOfficeJ-1.1</tt> to your key and then into <tt>~/Library/NeoOfficeJ-1.1</tt> on other machines if you want your settings to remain the same/in sync on multiple machines. Repeat after each session. #Copy <tt>~/Library/NeoOfficeJ-1.1</tt> to your key and then into <tt>~/Library/NeoOfficeJ-1.1</tt> on other machines if you want your settings to remain the same/in sync on multiple machines. Repeat after each session.
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-#Move Neo/J back to <tt>/Applications</tt> '''before opening the patch update .pkg''', then immediately move Neo/J back to the same place on your USB key or other disk after the patch installation is complete ('''Don't launch Neo/J''').+#Move NeoOffice/J back to <tt>/Applications</tt> '''before opening the patch update .pkg''', then immediately move NeoOffice/J back to the same place on your USB key or other disk after the patch installation is complete ('''Don't launch NeoOffice/J''').
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-If you have <tt>/Applications</tt> symlinked to your USB key or other disk, some of the complexity is removed (Neo/J more-or-less supports situations where <tt>/Applications</tt> is on a second drive/partition and where <tt>/Applications</tt> on the main drive has been replaced by a UNIX symbolic link to its location on the second drive).+==Alternatives==
 +===UNIX-style symbolic links===
 +If you have <tt>/Applications</tt> symlinked to your USB key or other disk, some of the complexity is removed (NeoOffice/J more-or-less supports situations where <tt>/Applications</tt> is on a second drive/partition and where <tt>/Applications</tt> on the main drive has been replaced by a UNIX symbolic link to its location on the second drive).
-====Alternate scheme: install on another volume====+===Installation on another volume===
-It's easy to install Neo/J to another volume. +It's easy to install NeoOffice/J to another volume.
-If you have several partitions or physical disk, just create an "Applications" folder at the root of this volume and it will be offered as a choice for the installation and patches thereafter. + 
 +If you have several partitions or physical disks, just create an "Applications" folder at the root of this volume and it will be offered as a choice for the installation and patches thereafter.
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Running NeoOffice/J from a location other than /Applications

Officially, this cannot be done. /Applications is the only supported location for installing NeoOffice/J.

There are two very important reasons for this:

  • First, a bunch of the underlying OpenOffice.org code expects things to be installed in a single known place and never moved, so there are lots of hard-coded pathnames in the app.
  • Secondly, because of the above and because searching an entire large disk for the NeoOffice/J install location could take "forever," the patch installers only look in /Applications for the NeoOffice/J app to update.

That said, unofficially, if you're really adventurous and careful, you could probably get it to work. Recently, some updates to the installation process and path checking code have been made that will make it easier to install or move NeoOffice/J into other places, but this is still experimental.

N.B.: Put the NeoOffice/J app on a drive that does not have any spaces in its name and only in folders that do not have spaces in the folder names. Parts of the OpenOffice.org code do not handle spaces in pathnames.

Installation and Patching Instructions:

  1. Install NeoOffice/J in /Applications for the first time (Don't launch it).
  2. Immediately move NeoOffice/J to your USB key or other disk.
  3. Never rename your USB key or other disk once you have ever launched NeoOffice/J.
  4. Copy ~/Library/NeoOfficeJ-1.1 to your key and then into ~/Library/NeoOfficeJ-1.1 on other machines if you want your settings to remain the same/in sync on multiple machines. Repeat after each session.
  5. Move NeoOffice/J back to /Applications before opening the patch update .pkg, then immediately move NeoOffice/J back to the same place on your USB key or other disk after the patch installation is complete (Don't launch NeoOffice/J).

Alternatives

UNIX-style symbolic links

If you have /Applications symlinked to your USB key or other disk, some of the complexity is removed (NeoOffice/J more-or-less supports situations where /Applications is on a second drive/partition and where /Applications on the main drive has been replaced by a UNIX symbolic link to its location on the second drive).

Installation on another volume

It's easy to install NeoOffice/J to another volume.

If you have several partitions or physical disks, just create an "Applications" folder at the root of this volume and it will be offered as a choice for the installation and patches thereafter.

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