2013/5/19 Dan Lewis <elderdanle...@gmail.com> > On 05/19/2013 12:30 PM, M Henri Day wrote: > >> 2013/5/19 Tom Davies <tomdavie...@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 <mhenri...@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 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. Perhaps in a couple of weeks ?... Henri -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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
