LibreOffice 4.0.2 doesn't run on my Win XP

[FinancialEngineer]

Hello,

Recently I downloaded the following two files from LibreOffice site

LibreOffice_4.0.2_Win_x86
LibreOffice_4.0.2_Win_x86_helppack_en-US

I have a Win XP Service Pack 2, I installed each of these files and only selected to install LO Calc

The installation completed successfully for program files and the help files

Yet when I double click the LibreOffice icon on my desktop or select the program from Start menu, it seems that the program executes on my machine since I see the Busy icon in Windows but then nothing happens

The program does not get launched and when I open system tray with Ctrl+Alt+Del it shows no program in memory

Have I missed anything while installing the files

On a side note, prior to downloading and installing I had downloaded and installed OpenOffice and that program runs fine on my computer

I even uninstalled OpenOffice in case it may have been restricting LibreOffice from running but a fresh installation of LibreOffice without OpenOffice on my system still leads to program not executing on my Win XP

Any help will be appreciated

Thank You

Mike

[jiero]

I never tried install only one program and this won’t save you much space - I cannot think of a reason. BTW: you can grab gnumeric and see if it works for you. =_=

[FinancialEngineer]

@jiero I didn’t get a chance to read your comment prior to writing this, yet it seems when I select a TYPICAL install option the installation worked and now the LibreOffice runs fine. Not sure why it is causing an error when only one applications is selected for install

[JL1]

According to the official site (https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/F…), LO 5.1 works on XP SP3. Try to upgrade yoiur XP to SP3.

[LinuxRev]

You should not be running Windows XP anymore anyway

[oweng]

Refer the answer here.