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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 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.org version 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

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