Re: [libreoffice-users] broken file associations after installing the new version.

On 07/19/2018 06:15 AM, Dan Lewis wrote:
> On 07/19/2018 12:57 AM, Tim-L wrote:
> > When I removed LibreOffice 6.0.3 from my Ubuntu 18.04 system, and 
> > then installed 6.0.5, the first time I opened a ODT document, it 
> > showed the ebook library package "Calibre" as the default package to 
> > open the ODT document.
> >
> > SO, any ideas why after removing 6.0.3 and then installing the newest 
> > version 6.0.5 would not assign ODT files to Writer?  I know Calibre 
> > will convert between types of documents/books, but never knew about 
> > ODT files - if it does at all.  I know that once last year, when I 
> > installed a different package that could open the ODT file AFTER I 
> > installed the newest version of LibreOffice. I had to re-install that 
> > version of LO to get the file properties to list the correct packages.
> >
> > Of course, today I just took one ODT file and changed the default 
> > package for it, which hopefully change it for all of the ODT files.
> >
> > Still, how come I had the problem in the first place.  Shouldn't the 
> > install of LibreOffice on Ubuntu-Mate 18.04LTS grab the package 
> > preference for each of the default office file type? Both ODF and MS 
> > Office?  It should, right?
> >
> > If this "not associating file types" during install is a bug, then it 
> > needs to be fixed.  I think people who have a good skill set, for 
> > both Windows and Linux, should know how to "manually" set the file 
> > association to the correct package/program.  The problem to me is 
> > those who are not as skilled, who find this broken association and 
> > "freak out".
> >
> > I know many here in my apartment building who would "freak out" and 
> > then ask me to help them. I know more in the community who barely 
> > know how to install a package using Windows and a self-running 
> > CD/DVD, let alone being able to download the proper version of 
> > LibreOffice for their system, and then install it.
>    I think I know what happened. When you removed 6.0.3 from your 
> computer, you removed the file association between LibreOffice and the 
> ODT files. This association is "open this type file with LibreOffice 
> 6.0.3". There is also a second level of file associations which is 
> "other recommended applications". Calibre fits into that catagory. (I 
> have used it to convert ODT files into ePUB format many times.) If, as 
> I think, calebre was the top program in that list, it stands to reason 
> that calibre would become the default package to open ODT files.
>    It would seem that the most installation of 6.0.5 would to list it 
> in the second level of file associations. I sometimes have more than 
> one version of libreoffice on my computer. Then when I right click on 
> an ODT file, I am given one of them as the default package. If I 
> select "open with other application", I see all versions of 
> libreoffice listed. (Right now I would see libreoffice 6.0 and 6.1.0 
> [which is RC1].)
>    I should mention that upon installing a new version of libreoffice, 
> I also modify the bootstraprc file so that a new folder of 
> configurations files is written in ~/.config/libreoffice/. Right now 
> in this folder, I have the following folders: 6HSQL and 6.1. The 
> former is config files for 6.0.5 which I use for running hsqldb 2.4.1 
> as the backend for Base. The latter is for RC1. (I probably installed 
> the RC1 version in parallel and then using sudo moved the installation 
> to /opt/.)
>
> Dan
I know that when I installed a editing package that also used ODF files, 
it became the default viewer for it.  Why LO does not do that? I thought 
it did once.

LibreOffice is now the only office package I use for Linux and Windows.  
I wish LO would soon put out a read/write version for Android, and not 
just a viewer, even if it is a limited one. I had to use AndrOffice [?] 
for my android tablet, for creation/editing the documents, if I did not 
take a laptop with me.  I went to the ER once for one problem, but I was 
kept for a week attached to an IV "bag". If did not take anything with 
me to the ER.  My sister brought the tablet to me.  I used it for 
ebooks, watching streaming TV [local cable provider's app], and typed in 
some ideas I had while in bed almost 24/7. I wanted to do something 
while there. I tend not to sleep much in the hospital.  Now I make sure 
I bring my tablet with me - filled with books, movies, music, and 
everything I may need to create documents with it.



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