https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=93728
Bug ID: 93728
Summary: INSTALLATION: file extensions default to opening
Archive Manager
Product: LibreOffice
Version: 5.0.0.5 release
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64)
OS: Linux (All)
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: medium
Component: Installation
Assignee: libreoffice-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org
Reporter: duane...@hotmail.com
I removed the Linux Mint repository version of LibO 4.2.8, then installed
5.0.0.5 from LibreOffice_5.0.0_Linux_x86-64_deb.tar.gz with dpkg. Install was
successful. However, afterwards the file extensions (ODT, ODS, etc.) in Nemo
file manager would not open the respective program (Writer, Calc, etc.), but
instead the program defaults (seen in right-clicking a filename) were set to
Archive Manager. All LibO extensions pointed to the same wrong application.
THERE IS A WORKAROUND
Pursuing the right click, "Open With" > Other Application. Opens the "Open
With" dialogue.
if I set each extension type, with the "Set to default" in the "Open With"
dialogue, then select the "Reset to system defaults" button, the default "Open
With" reverted to Archive Manager. This appears to be temporary behavior. I set
all defaults to the correct application. After a reboot (I wonder if log out
would accomplish the same), the "Reset to system defaults" button kept the new,
correct, default application, e.g., clicking on a file.odt opened it in Writer.
The new 5.0 installation retained the previous installation's
.config/libreoffice/4/ user configuration files.
Changing the default application for each extension type appears to be a
permanent workaround. When I checked the condition for ANOTHER USER in the same
Mint installation, the extensions were ALREADY POINTING TO the corrected
applications. That indicates that "Open With", "Set as Default" was not
changing a local /home/user file but more probably,
/usr/share/applications/defaults.list (a link to /etc/gnome/defaults.list).
I would think that if file associations were removed when a previous version
was uninstalled, that installing the new version (5.0) would re-establish the
file associations -- but it didn't happen in my case.
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