Hi guys,
My current LibreOffice version is 4.4.4.3
I see there is a version 5 now. I would like to install it. Do I need to uninstall version 4 first? Or will this be done automatically?
Version 5.0.0 is very fresh and I wouldnât advise to use it âin productionâ. On my Win system it (the 64-bit V5.0.0 RC5) installed without a problem while the 32-bit 4.4.4 was left untouched in its location. V5 assigned itself as the default software to open all the acceptable document types and continued using the old user profile. No problem - except that we may some time want to delete the old program folder.
Editing: Some of my remarks (now struck) were not correct. (See my second comment below.)
Thanks for replying. Why wouldnât you advise to use it in production? Does it contain bugs or something? As I understand you correctly the version 4 folder wasnât automatically deleted. Can I just delete it afterwards then?
Every complex soiftware is containing bugs by the thousands. Itâs a question of severeness and of escaping by thorough use⌠I sometimes experience a bug which was present for years, but didnât become noticeable to me for a long time. A new first-digit-version will come with some new features. Code will be rewritten for one or another reason. There may occur new bugs or regressions an there wasnât a lot of time to find and fix them. (In this case we dare hope as 5.0 is somehow 4.5 renamed.)
Deleting the version-4-program-folder should be safe. I have to correct myself: Most of the content of the V4-folder was deleted already by the V5 installation.
Think again about the âV4-folderâ. 5.x uses the identical folder/directory as 4.x (how wonderful).
This is only the case for the user profile, still appearing in âAppData\Roaming\LibreOffice\4â of the user section. Under Win 8.1, at least, the program folder for the 64-bit version is now named âLibreOffice 5â, and (correctly) placed under âProgram Filesâ instead of âProgram Files (x86)â.
(Didnât test: Maybe the installer will create a \5 user profile if no \4 profile is present.)
LO 5 is nice, but at this time I agree it is not yet mature enough for production use, esp. concerning Base. Encountering larger number of anomalies and crashes.
I donât use base. I mainly use Writer and Calc. So far no problems ⌠hope it stays like that.
Well, I just installed LibreOffice 5. Everything still seems to be working fine 
The LibreOffice 4 folder in âProgram Filesâ was perfectly deleted by itself. The roaming data was preserved in the âoldâ LibreOffice 4 folder and all of my settings were maintained. So far, everything looks good!