On 02/14/2010 04:48 AM, M Henri Day wrote:
> 2010/2/14 NoOp <gl...@sbcglobal.net>
>
>> On 02/13/2010 08:46 PM, NoOp wrote:
>> > 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=$SYSUSERCONFIG/.openoffice.org/3'
>>
>> Correction:
>> - Modify that file *from*:
>> 'UserInstallation=$SYSUSERCONFIG/.openoffice.org/3'
>> to
>> 'UserInstallation=$SYSUSERCONFIG/.openoffice.org3/3'
>>
>
> NoOp, thanks for your detailed reply ! My write-protected
> «/opt/openoffice.org3/program/bootstraprc» file looked like this :
>
> [Bootstrap]
> BaseInstallation=${OOO_BASE_DIR}
> InstallMode=<installmode>
> ProductKey=OpenOffice.org 3.2
> UserInstallation=$SYSUSERCONFIG/.openoffice.org/3
> [ErrorReport]
> ErrorReportPort=80
> ErrorReportServer=report.services.openoffice.org
>
> I tried to use the «chmod» command you suggested above, but for some strange
> reason, I couldn't get the «+w» option to take, so I decided to run «sudo
> chmod 777 /opt/openoffice.org3/program/
> bootstraprc» instead - an elephant gun to shoot mosquitoes, perhaps, but it
> worked. When I open the file, I now see «UserInstallation=$SYSUSERCONFIG/.
> openoffice.org/3/3».
<quote>
Correction:
- Modify that file *from*:
'UserInstallation=$SYSUSERCONFIG/.openoffice.org/3'
to
'UserInstallation=$SYSUSERCONFIG/.openoffice.org3/3'
</quote>
> However, despite this change, when I click an .odt or a
> .doc file, it still opens in Writer in OOo 3.1 ! A piece of information
> which may or not be useful in this context is that the command which opens
> OOo 3.2 is «/opt/openoffice.org3/program/soffice». Hope you can suggest a
> way out - I can work around the problem easily enough, by first opening OOo
> 3.2 and then opening my files from within Writer, but it irritates me that I
> can't change the default....
Perhaps you missed the part about setting your defaults in Nautilus?
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