Ubuntu Fixes Opening iWork Documents in LibreOffice
Ubuntu ships with LibreOffice because it’s a powerful open-source office suite compatible with documents created in other productivity apps, including Microsoft Office and Apple’s iWork. While LibreOffice can open files made in Apple Pages (a word processor, saves as .pages) and Numbers (a spreadsheet app, saves as .numbers) the shared-mime-info package in Ubuntu 22.04 LTS misattributes both formats as ZIP archives. This means if an Ubuntu 22.04 user double-clicks on either document in the file manager the Archive Manager tool will open instead of LibreOffice. Bit annoying. Thankfully, the bug was fixed upstream last year, and in the shared-mime-info 2.2 […] You're reading Ubuntu Fixes Opening iWork Documents in LibreOffice, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do not reproduce elsewhere without permission.
Ubuntu ships with LibreOffice because it’s a powerful open-source office suite compatible with documents created in other productivity apps, including Microsoft Office and Apple’s iWork. While LibreOffice can open files made in Apple Pages (a word processor, saves as .pages) and Numbers (a spreadsheet app, saves as .numbers) the shared-mime-info package in Ubuntu 22.04 LTS misattributes both formats as ZIP archives. This means if an Ubuntu 22.04 user double-clicks on either document in the file manager the Archive Manager tool will open instead of LibreOffice. Bit annoying. Thankfully, the bug was fixed upstream last year, and in the shared-mime-info 2.2 […]
You're reading Ubuntu Fixes Opening iWork Documents in LibreOffice, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do not reproduce elsewhere without permission.
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