On 02/13/2010 12:15 AM, M Henri Day wrote: > 2010/2/13 NoOp ... >> Then you didn't actually uninstall 3.1, or you didn't install 3.2. >> Please provide details on *exactly* what and how you installed. > > > Here below, NoOp, the gory details : > > 1) Downloaded «OOo_3.2.0rc5_20100203_LinuxX86-64_install_sv_deb.tar.gz» > package to my Downloads directory. > 2) Opened the Synaptic package manager and uninstalled v 3.2.0rc4. > 3) Extacted the contents > of «OOo_3.2.0rc5_20100203_LinuxX86-64_install_sv_deb.tar.gz» to a folder > called «OOO320_m12_native_packed-1_sv.9483» in my home directory. > 4) Opened a terminal, cd-ed into ../OOO320_m12_native_packed-1_sv.9483/DEBS > 5) Installed the Debs files via «sudo dpkg -i *.deb». > > > After checking to see that the new installation was up and running, I went > back to Synaptic and uninstalled all the «ooobasis-dev3.1...» files found > there. Despite this, as noted above, both .odt and .doc files open in OOo > 3.1, as do .pps files. In addition to the «OOO320_m12_native_packed-1_sv.9483» > folder mentioned above, the earlier «OOO310_m11_native_packed-3_sv.9399» > folder still is found in my home directory ; would removing the latter > resolve the problem ?...
A few points: 1. You don't need to uninstall (U)OOo, it will reside nicely side-by-side with standard OOo. There is a trick to this though... you need to modify the (S)OOo file to to use an alternate profile to the (U)OOo. This is what I do: - First set write permissions on /opt/openoffice.org3/bootstraprc $ sudo chmod +w /opt/openoffice.org3/program/bootstraprc - Modify that file to: 'UserInstallation=$SYSUSERCONFIG/.openoffice.org/3' Note: use can use: 'gksu gedit /opt/openoffice.org3/program/bootstraprc' - Save and _then_ start (S)OOo. That will generate your (S)OOo profile in ~/.openoffice.org3 rather than the (U)OOo ~/.openoffice.org Unfortunately, you will need to do this for each new updated (S)Ooo, but it's pretty simple, so just save the instruction. You can now run both, so reinstall your (U)OOo. Note: I'm assuming that you already know how to add additional menu items to your Applications|Office to point to the new (S)OOo(s). 2. The issue of not defaulting to the new (S)OOo is nothing new. It's the same in Windows... you need to tell your file browser (in this case Nautilus) to use the new (S)OOo for the file types. From Nautilus, right-click on a related file (.pps, .doc., .odt, etc) and select 'Open with Other Application' (you can also use Properties|Open With|Add). You won't find your new (S)OOo there as it was installed via dpkg, so instead click 'Use a custom command' and then Browse to: /opt/openoffice.org3/program and select the appropriate swriter, simpress etc. You can of course thereafter use the Properties|Open With to set defaults. As for why your documents were still opening in 3.1, I've no real clue. Perhaps you can post the output of the 'versionrc's that you have on your system? $ locate versionrc $ cat <path>/program/versionrc For example from this system (I've trimmed the full output of 'cat' so as not to take up too many electrons: /opt/ooo-dev/basis3.2/program/versionrc /opt/ooo-dev/basis3.3/program/versionrc /opt/ooo-dev/ure/bin/versionrc /opt/ooo-dev3/program/versionrc /opt/openoffice.org/basis3.1/program/versionrc /opt/openoffice.org/basis3.2/program/versionrc /opt/openoffice.org/ure/bin/versionrc /opt/openoffice.org3/program/versionrc /usr/lib/openoffice/basis3.1/program/versionrc /usr/lib/openoffice/program/versionrc /usr/lib/ure/bin/versionrc $ cat /opt/openoffice.org3/program/versionrc [Version] AllLanguages=en-US buildid=320m12(Build:9483) <snipped> Note that '/usr/lib/openoffice/program/versionrc' is my (U)OOo install. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
