CentOS - Nov 2009 - Problem when opening files after installing OpenOffice 3.1 on CentOS 5.4

Hi,

I have installed OpenOffice 3.1 downloaded from the openoffice.org
website on CentOS 5.4 x86_64.

The downloaded file is actually an archive containing RPMs.
I did not use their setup tool but installed directly the RPMs I was
interested in via 'yum localinstall' (my idea is in the future to put
them on a custom yum repository, so that they can be managed via
regular yum install / update).

It works fine, except that when I double-click on, say, *.odt files in
the file browser I get the following exception:

Cannot open xxxxxxx.odt
The filename "xxxxxxx.odt" indicates that this file is of type
"odt
document". The contents of the file indicate that the file is of type
"OpenDocument Text".

If I do a right-click, Open with... > Open Office Writer 3.1, it opens
the file properly.

1. Did anybody already experienced that?
2. Do you know where I can manage the file types in GNOME?

I have already added Open Office 3.1 as the default application to
open such files (Right-click, Properties > Open With)

Thanks in advance!

Mathieu

Mathieu Baudier wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have installed OpenOffice 3.1 downloaded from the openoffice.org
> website on CentOS 5.4 x86_64.
>
> The downloaded file is actually an archive containing RPMs.
> I did not use their setup tool but installed directly the RPMs I was
> interested in via 'yum localinstall' (my idea is in the future to
put
> them on a custom yum repository, so that they can be managed via
> regular yum install / update).
>
> It works fine, except that when I double-click on, say, *.odt files in
> the file browser I get the following exception:
>
> Cannot open xxxxxxx.odt
> The filename "xxxxxxx.odt" indicates that this file is of type
"odt
> document". The contents of the file indicate that the file is of type
> "OpenDocument Text".
>   
Did you install the relevant rpm from the desktop-integration folder?? 
This has fixed these issues for me previously
> If I do a right-click, Open with... > Open Office Writer 3.1, it opens
> the file properly.
>
> 1. Did anybody already experienced that?
> 2. Do you know where I can manage the file types in GNOME?
>
> I have already added Open Office 3.1 as the default application to
> open such files (Right-click, Properties > Open With)
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Mathieu
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> Did you install the relevant rpm from the desktop-integration folder?? This
> has fixed these issues for me previously
I have installed openoffice.org3.1-redhat-menus.noarch  from the
sekto-integration subfolder.
Is it what you had done?

On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 09:40:01PM +0100, Mathieu Baudier
wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have installed OpenOffice 3.1 downloaded from the openoffice.org
> website on CentOS 5.4 x86_64.
> 
> The downloaded file is actually an archive containing RPMs.
> I did not use their setup tool but installed directly the RPMs I was
> interested in via 'yum localinstall' (my idea is in the future to
put
> them on a custom yum repository, so that they can be managed via
> regular yum install / update).
> 
> It works fine, except that when I double-click on, say, *.odt files in
> the file browser I get the following exception:
> 
> Cannot open xxxxxxx.odt
> The filename "xxxxxxx.odt" indicates that this file is of type
"odt
> document". The contents of the file indicate that the file is of type
> "OpenDocument Text".
> 
> If I do a right-click, Open with... > Open Office Writer 3.1, it opens
> the file properly.
> 
> 1. Did anybody already experienced that?
> 2. Do you know where I can manage the file types in GNOME?
> 
> I have already added Open Office 3.1 as the default application to
> open such files (Right-click, Properties > Open With)
i've removed the default OOo that comes with Centos 5.4 and replaced
it with OOo 3.1.1 and I'm not having that trouble.

Don't know if this relates or not, but did you also install the 
RPM file for RedHat menu integration? If you unpack the archive that
contains all the RPM files, there will be a subdirectory containing
a bunch of files, each of which is a set of menu updates for various
distributions. I've never investigated to see what they install, but
I suppose it is possible that they install info that relates to the
app linkage to file types and vice-versa.

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