Parallel installations of AOO 4.x versions

Issues with installing under all GNU/Linux Distributions
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LeroyTennison
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Parallel installations of AOO 4.x versions

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I have AOO 4.0.1 installed on Suse 12.2 and wanted to install AOO 4.1.1 in parallel. Renaming /opt/openoffice4 to
/opt/openoffice4.0.1 and changing the paths to the executables in the "Link to Application" desktop files seemed to work fine. However, when I went to install AOO 4.1.1 I got numerous conflict messages. Is this an RPM problem? It doesn't appear that a *.tar.gz|bz[2]|etc install is available. If one was would I be able to run two versions in parallel if I installed from a non-RPM source? Are there other alternatives? Thanks for any ideas or solutions.
Apache OpenOffice 4.1.2 on Linux (Ubuntu 14.04 LTS)
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kingfisher
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Re: Parallel installations of AOO 4.x versions

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A method for installing both AOO and LO is described in this post and would, I imagine, work for installing different versions of AOO.
Apache OpenOffice 4.1.9 on Linux
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