Re: can't get LibreOffice to run on XP Pro SP3

James Wobanwu <[email protected]> wrote:

> I have an old Toshiba Pentium II with XP Pro SP3 and I am trying to get 
> LibreOffice to run on it.  I have downloaded the last versions of LO, 
> which appears to be 5.4, that will run on XP.  I have tried both 
> portable and non-portable versions.  No error messages, just when I 
> click on LO, the hard drive starts to churn and then stops after a while 
> and the program doesn't open.  I even tried a 5.3.X version but same 
> behavior.   Any help here would be welcome and thanks.

If the program started to load but crashed, there might be an entry in
Event Viewer's logs about the program's crash.

At https://downloadarchive.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/old/, on
which hyperlink did you click?  There is no 5.4 version in the archive,
but there are many 5.4.x versions.  Under which one did you go?  If you
went under:

https://downloadarchive.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/old/5.4.7.2/

and then under the win subfolder, which bitwidth did you choose for the
download?  There is no 64-bit version of Windows XP.  (*)

(*) What was called Windows XP x64 was a crippled version of Windows 
    Server 2003 with a Windows XP desktop GUI.  If not designed to run 
    under a server version of Windows, a program may not run.  Windows 
    XP x64 is bogus, and Microsoft's attempt to glom onto the burgeoning 
    64-bit consumer demand along with a shammed attempt to catch up with 
    other 64-bit operating systems.  A program that won't run under a 
    server edition of Windows may also not run under the sham named 
    Windows XP x64.

Ouch, a really old Pentium 2 (launched back in 1997).  That's a painful
struggle.  Is that the one with Slot2 processors?  Those slid into a
slot, not socket, had tangs to hold it into the motherboard slot, and
put a lot of stress on the slot and mobo due to its weight; see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slot_2.  Are you prepping it for donation
to the Smithsonian museum?  

SSE extensions weren't available until the Pentium 3.  Because of SSE,
you sure LO 5.4.x doesn't have a minimum hardware requirement of a
Pentium 3 CPU?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streaming_SIMD_Extensions

Version 5.4.x required the Microsoft Visual C++ 2015 runtime libs.  LO
doesn't include those.  Do you have them?

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/the-latest-supported-visual-c-downloads-2647da03-1eea-4433-9aff-95f26a218cc0