Installing Offline Help in Portable App for Windows

It’s quite annoying that the Portable installations on the site do not include any links to the offline help. (Hint: If one is intending to use a portable app, there’s a greater-than-normal chance that the anticipated use location/method will NOT play nice with all help systems requiring a live internet connection.) I have found the .msi with the current version offline help by going to the “main downloads” folder, but it would be trivial to include a link at Portable versions | LibreOffice - Free Office Suite - Based on OpenOffice - Compatible with Microsoft to the offline documentation… or, better yet, offer a package with that documentation already included to install, with the version and bit correct.

And, if the latter is not possible, at least a link to installation instructions for portable-installation uses. As it happens, I know how to force-run msiexec to push the files to where they’ll work… but not everyone does.

(Why do I insist on portable? Because using any of the “non-portable” installations throws garbage and creates dependencies in places on my hard disk that I don’t want any, like the \user hierarchy that should be limited to user data with no executable files or dependencies. I’m not running a PDP-11 with 120+ distinct users sharing the same hardware via dumb terminals, each with individual software licenses and versions and permissions. Any more.)

Please post a feature request on Bugzilla. Thanks.

For the portable version, I guess you have to ask at PortableApps - they create this version.

Edit: But they don’t plan to integrate this:

2 Likes

Definitely; and the page linked from the question itself has this:

LibreOffice is packaged for portable use by PortableApps.com with permission and assistance from The Document Foundation. For more information and support please visit this page (for LibreOffice Portable Fresh) and this page (for LibreOffice Portable Still).

@JohnTHaller may have more insight what volunteer power they might need to provide what you want.

LibreOffice Portable offline help is now available as an English-only add-on from the LibreOffice Portable homepage under Notes. I do not know if this will be retained or expanded in the future as my time and resources are extremely limited.

2 Likes

For any language you can still use the guide I made 7 years ago.
Trying to be reliably precise, I made it rather wordy, however.
LibOPortableOfflineHelp.pdf (76.4 KB)

1 Like