On 11/10/2009 06:06 AM, fred smith wrote: > 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. > > Have you updated the system after installing vanilla OOo? If yes, then that may be the problem. Because similar thing happened with me.