How do I make LibreOffice the default office suite?

[ApocryphalAuthor]

Hello Ubuntu Community!

I have installed LibreOffice (x86) on Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat, and it's working great!

I'm just curious if anyone knows a quick way to make LibreOffice the default for all of the appropriate files (doc, odt, xls, ods, etc.)

I searched around in the the LibreOffice>Tools>Options, but I haven't found anything yet. I'm aware that I could right click on a ods file and use the "Open With Other Application" to set a default for that one filetype, but I figured that there's probably a way to completely switch all office file types to Libreoffice.

Your help and comments are appreciated.!

[mendhak]

Right click on the file, properties, 'Open With' tab.

This is slightly different because at the top it says something similar to "... to open abc.jpg and other files of type office document"

So if you apply an application there, it should switch other office formats too.

[Krytarik]

Unless you installed LibreOffice side-by-side to OpenOffice, it should be automatically associated to all eligible mimetypes.

Also see this guide: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LibreOffice

Greetings.

[ApocryphalAuthor]

Unless you installed LibreOffice side-by-side to OpenOffice, it should be automatically associated to all eligible mimetypes.

Also see this guide: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LibreOffice

Greetings.

Oh, that was my mistake. Originally, I installed the LibreOffice .deb alongside OpenOffice. After reading through https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LibreOffice, I added ppa:libreoffice/ppa to my repositories and did the full LibreOffice install. It removed OpenOffice and made LibreOffice the default suite.

Sweet! Thanks for your help!

[linuxuser12345]

Wait until Ubuntu 11.04. XD