OpenOffice2 package

[Andy Choens]

I had 1.9.79 installed on my system.  I made my own debs, and tried to
use the ones people mentionned for download.  Both sets of debs
installed and ran perfectly.  But, the new OOo didn't add itself to my
menu.  So, I wrote my own .desktop files, but then discovered that OOo
wasn't opening the files correctly from Nautilus.

So, I looked at the .desktop file and the start script from 1.9.79. 
There was nothing interesting about the .desktop file in
/usr/share/applications.  However, I did find something kinda
interesting in /usr/bin.  There I found a perl script, not a binary
for starting swriter, scalc, et al.  So, I looked in
/usr/lib/openoffice2and discovered it had the exactsame structure as
my new installation in /opt.  So I copied the 1.9.96 installation from
/opt to /usr/lib/openoffice2 and don't have to write my .desktop files
and nautilus continues to work perfectly, without me resetting the
mime-types for all of my office documents.

I see this as having 2 benefits.  1) I saved myself a lot of work in
terms of making my office work-flow incorporate the updated OOo and 2)
I can still use apt-get to upgrade into breezy, since Breezy will just
over-write the installation because it still thinks I am using 1.9.79.

Two things you should know and be aware of.  You will have to change
all of your settings again, so any configuration tweaks you had before
won't be carried over, and you will lose some gnome integration.  The
default installation doesn't include the gnome support for the open
and save dialogs, but that will come back when you update to breezy.

--andy

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