Saturday
Jun 2005
all in a day's blog
making staroffice 8 the default application
staroffice 8 should be out soon (the beta program closed at the end of april). for those who want to install and make it the default office suite for all users on a solaris 10 system, here are some quick and dirty instructions.
- install staroffice 8 as root. choose /opt/staroffice8 for the installation directory
- as root, go to /usr/share/application-registry directory
- copy existing config files into backup files:
# cp gnome-vfs.applications gnome-vfs.applications.bak
# cp staroffice.applications staroffice.applications.bak
# cp staroffice8.applications staroffice8.applications.bak
(staroffice8.applications is actually a symlink to /usr/share/gnome/applications-registry/staroffice8.applications - you may want to make a backup of that instead, ie /usr/share/gnome/applications-registry/staroffice8.applications.bak) - edit staroffice8.applications
- change the first line from 'staroffice8' to 'staroffice':
staroffice
command=staroffice8 <---- note: should remain staroffice8
name=StarOffice 8
.../rest of file/...
- edit staroffice.applications
- change the first line from 'staroffice' to 'staroffice7':
staroffice7
command=staroffice
name=StarOffice 7
.../rest of file/...
- edit gnome-vfs.applications
- find the entry for 'staroffice'
- replace that entry with the text from staroffice8.applications
- default application should now be staroffice 8
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