Missing EXE files

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#1

Am I just insane? My situation is that I’m setting up a refurbished Windows 11 machine made by Lenovo, and I might be crazy.

I started by started with a going to the LibreOffice website and grabbing the torrent. I was not able to get that to download about an hour of trying and a couple of different torrent downloaders, so I then downloaded the .MSI directly.

I got that .MSI. When I tried to open the .MSI, it wouldn’t install but instead wanted to unpack the package like it was a .ZIP. Okay, I tried that but didn’t find any way to actually run the applications. I searched for terms including “setup,” “launch,” “office,” and “*.exe” but found no files containing any of those terms. I didn’t remember ever having this much trouble installing LibreOffice in the past, so I resigned myself to letting the Microsoft Store do it for me.

I downloaded the entire suite again from the Microsoft Store. It will cost me $4 and change (US dollars), but I was planning to make the $5 donation anyway. I would rather cut MS out of the transaction and gift directly to LibreOffice, but this method is acceptable. It left an icon on the desktop labeled “LibreOffice 24.8,” so I thought I was making progress. I tried using the icon, and it results in an error message that it cannot find “soffice.exe” and know I know that I’ve gone crazy.

I checked the folders again. In both the previous install and the installation from the Microsoft Store, I search. There are no .EXE files in either one, and Windows 11 expects there to be some. I searched this forum to see if anyone else had reported this issue, and there’s just no info.

So now I’ve wasted a few hours, most of five dollars, and I still cannot read a document. Maybe I am just way, way more stupid than I was when first began using LibreOffice many years ago. Even if so, I still find it astonishing that there’s no mention of anyone else having this problem anywhere in the forum. I’m leaving this message mostly so that if anyone else ever does experience this, the next person won’t experience the same disassociation ennui and loneliness.

#2

Microsoft’s internet explorer used to try and install programs as it was downloading them causing some problems, maybe Edge does the same.
Best to download to the Download folder. Close Edge when done.
Disable your anti virus temporarily.
Navigate to the download and double click to install it.

Here are Windows | LibreOffice - Free and private office suite - Based on OpenOffice - Compatible with Microsoft

If you still have difficulty, check out General Installation Issues (Windows) - The Document Foundation Wiki

#3

A case when some helpful application destroys files (that time, they are reported to be the documents): Auto Updater & Sentinel One Killing Files . Here, it may be a similar case, but a security app killing executables?

#4

Obviously something in your Windows setup is wrong.

Did you install the Windows yourself, or is this the setup you got?
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One point I would check first, even if inlikely: Is your Windows in S-Mode? This would not allow to use downloaded .msi, but the MS shop should have worked.
Refurbished computers often have a “company install” wich is also obeyed on re-install. Having a setup wich employees prevent from installing their own stuff is somethin I would expect here. I needed several times to tweak install to get a clean Windows. (Ok, clean is not the best word to describe a fresh Windows install, but that’s another problem).

#5

This is not related to Windows security setting, but LibreOffice .msi installer which is a pure web installer. The same happens with LibreOffice SDK .msi package, dowloading hangs no matter if using Edge or Chrome. Build installer .exe or complete .msi instead of your online installer. It makes no sense trying to protect some parts when the same package is available as a zip with source code.

#6

What do you mean??? I ask as someone who have put much effort into the MSI installer (fixing bugs, adding functionality, bringing up to date with changing requirements), and who doesn’t know how that is a “web installer”, let alone “pure”.

#7

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#8

Are you trolling? Just use an archive app capable of reading MSI, like 7-Zip, to look inside. And stop your BS.

And you are no one who can order me what to do like “instead of A, do B”. Mind your own business. And educate yourself, e.g. to verify your claims before posting, to look a bit less ignorant.

#9

You asked what I meant and I answered.

#10

I saw your miserable “answer”. I also saw the silly assumptions in it like “oh no, that is so different size - it can’t all fit into the MSI! Let me claim what I imagine…” - which is kind of OK to have misconceptions, but not a reason, when you are asked to clarify your ideas, to start insulting the person who asked you a question. A sane person would instead politely provide the reasons, or - better - would ask themselves if they could check, e.g. by trying to compress the SDK (full of HTMLs, so highly compressible) into a ZIP. But you made a direct attack. Tells it all about you.

#11

Perhaps now is a place for an apology, especially when a development team representative is doing great work for free on his free time is certainly above all criticism.

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