2013/5/19 Dan Lewis <elderdanlewis@gmail.com>
On 05/19/2013 12:30 PM, M Henri Day wrote:2013/5/19 Tom Davies <tomdavies04@yahoo.co.uk> 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 <mhenriday@gmail.com> To: users@global.libreoffice.org 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 LTSI'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 Igetany 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 downloadedthethree packages (main package, Swedish-language langpack, plus the help package) directly from the LibreOffice website and installed them fromtherespective 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, butonthe 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 ?... HenriThanks for your suggestion, Tom, but alas, it doesn't work, at least noton 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 thatcomes 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. Perhaps in a couple of weeks ?... Henri -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscribe@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted