Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 34874
Cannot change installation directory after removing a component from installation list
Last modified: 2013-08-07 15:26:47 UTC
Steps to reproduce this problem: 1. Start setup 2. Click until you reached the 3. "Change"-button to change the installation directory is enabled. 4. Deselect a component from installation (f.e. "Fonts") 5. The "Change" button of the dialog is disabled. I am not able to change the installation directory anymore. Why?
Will be fixed later
I tried this in 1.9.65 and I saw what happened at first. I went to custom, expanded the optional components area and deselected the python bridge thing, the change button grayed out. However... I then selected another component, or minimized the custom listr and then the button un grayed out. See the two pictures I attached. Closing works for me. Peter
Created attachment 20667 [details] Install Pic #1
Created attachment 20668 [details] Install Pic #2
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Still the same behaviour: The button is greyed out if a component is deselected.
Out of curiosity, did you try what I suggested, because it worked for me? What OS are you using, maybe it has to do with your OS's installer. In Win XP no SP2 it worked okay if you follow my steps below.
The 'bug' is that for all deselected modules the >Change< button is disabled. No matter what OS is running.
Okay, I don't know how you could make sure a sweeping statement since OOo now uses the OS's installed to install. Have you seen the error on every OS? You also didn't answer me second question, did you try selecting a second component? When you did that, did the button ungray as I sugeested it would on 19 Dec?
In 1.9.72 this seems to be fixed. When you deselect a component the entire option to set the directory disappears, because that component can't beinstalled (There is a red x on it) However if you click on a component you are going to install, the change directory options opens again.
The intention is to keep the button enabled on a deselected component. The Destination for the installation belongs to the whole office and not to the component so the button should stay enabled even if the component has been deselected. This behaviour has always been the same since the new installer has been introduced and has never been fixed.
What functionality are you losing right now under the way that the installer is set up?
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