Hi :) Sometime during install it should ask if you want the new version to be the default app for MS formats. Unfortunately i don't think it asks about ODF formats.
There is a page in the wiki about "Installing on Linux" that might help to remove all versions and then reinstall the newer ones from the downloads you kept. (You did keep the didn't you?). I guess you can always re-download if you have to, or encourage a buddy too and then copy there's "to check them". On Debian-family, incls Ubuntu you can remove all versions of LibreOffice with a command something like sudo apt-get remove libreoffice* but please try apt-get --help (with a space just before the --) to check that is not the one tht removes all your configurations too. There is one apt-get 'tag' to remove all setting, configs and everything, and a different 'tag' to just remove the programs but keep the configs. The later is usually preferable to avoid having to set everything up the way you like again from scratch. Regards from Tom :) ----- Original Message ----- > From: M Henri Day <[email protected]> > To: Dan Lewis <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > Sent: Sunday, 19 May 2013, 19:56 > Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Attempting to upgrade from (Swedish-language) LO 4.0.2.2 to 4.0.3.3 on 64-bit Ubuntu 12.04 LTS > > 2013/5/19 Dan Lewis <[email protected]> > >> On 05/19/2013 12:30 PM, M Henri Day wrote: >> >>> 2013/5/19 Tom Davies <[email protected]> >>> >>> Hi :) >>>> On Ubuntu try right-click on any Odt file and choose > "Properties" in the >>>> "Open With" tab choose the 4.0.3 and set that as the > default app to open >>>> Odts with >>>> Regards from >>>> Tom :) >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> ----- Original Message ----- >>>> >>>>> From: M Henri Day <[email protected]> >>>>> To: [email protected] >>>>> Cc: >>>>> Sent: Sunday, 19 May 2013, 15:42 >>>>> Subject: [libreoffice-users] Attempting to upgrade from >>>>> >>>> (Swedish-language) LO 4.0.2.2 to 4.0.3.3 on 64-bit Ubuntu 12.04 LTS >>>> >>>>> I'm a tad confused by the following situation : when LO > 4.0.3.3 was >>>>> released, I thought to upgrade by clicking on the Help tab in > LO 4.0.2.2 >>>>> and choosing «Check for updates» in the menu that then appears. > To my >>>>> disappointment no such alternative appeared in the menu. > Neither did I >>>>> >>>> get >>>> >>>>> any updates from the LO PPA, neither the more general > LibreOffice >>>>> version >>>>> nor the more specific version for updates to LO 4.0.x. OK, I > downloaded >>>>> >>>> the >>>> >>>>> three packages (main package, Swedish-language langpack, plus > the help >>>>> package) directly from the LibreOffice website and installed > them from >>>>> >>>> the >>>> >>>>> respective DEBS folders. Doing so installed the package under >>>>> /opt/libreoffice4.0, as distinct from usr/lib/libreoffice, on > which the >>>>> 4.0.2.2 package is installed. I now have two distinct > LibreOffice >>>>> installations available on my Cinnamon panel, which gives me a > choice - >>>>> always nice ! - but, for example, documents that I receive as >>>>> attachments >>>>> to email messages are opened by default in LO 4.0.2.2 and I > have to jump >>>>> through several hoops to get them to open instead in 4.0.3.3. > What I >>>>> perhaps find oddest of all is the fact that, as noted above, no > update >>>>> option is provided under Help in 4.0.2.2, where it would be > useful, but >>>>> >>>> on >>>> >>>>> the contrary, it is provided there in 4.0.3.3, where, at least > for the >>>>> present, it only informs the users that no update is available. > What's >>>>> going on ?... >>>>> >>>>> Henri >>>>> >>>> Thanks for your suggestion, Tom, but alas, it doesn't work, at > least not >>> on >>> my machine, as the 4.0.3.3 version of Writer is not presented as an >>> alternative, even if I click on «Search for other alternatives». I > think >>> it >>> has to do with the 4.0.3.3 folders being stored under /opt, while the >>> 4.0.2.2 are stored under /lib, as per the above, and I could probably >>> resolve the problem by moving the 4.0.3.3 package to the latter > directory, >>> but frankly, I'm too chicken to try.... ;-) >>> >>> Henri >>> >>> The problem you are having is that 4.0.2.2 is the LibreOffice > that >> comes with Ubuntu while 4.0.3.3 comes from the libreoffice.org website. >> For many years the 2 version have not been compatible as far as the menu is >> concern. The Ubuntu version has to be remove before libreoffice.orgversion > will appear in the menu after installing the desktop file. >> I have a file that explains step by step how to do this. I'm not > sure >> what the date when that file was created, but it applied to the installing >> of OOo 2.3.0 RC3. (That would be OOo 2.3.0.3 the way LO numbers its version >> now.) That was a few years ago. >> >> --Dan > > > Thanks for your response, Dan ! As a matter of fact, I have managed to put > the 4.0.3.3 build on my menu by right-clicking it, selecting «Edit menu», > choosing «Office» and then adding the LO components to the menu one at a > time, taking care to provide the correct commands, for example, in the case > of Writer, «/opt/libreoffice4.0/program/swriter». I then closed the editor, > opened the Menu and right-clicked the individual components to place them > om my Cinnamon top panel. No problem - but a bit of pain. But as Synaptic > insists on telling me that the latest Ubuntu version remains > 1:4.0.2~rc2-0ubuntu~precise1, perhaps I'll just have to accept the fact > that the PPA-makers simply have not yet gotten 'round to producing a > 4.0.3.3 version for that distro. 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