F7, Open Office, Java and Nautilus

[nicstevens42]

Hi,

After installing F7 Nautilus warns me whenever I double click on .odt .ods files telling me it's unsafe to open java apps:

The filename "Foo.ods" indicates that this file is of type "ODS spreadsheet". The contents of the file indicate that the file is of type "Java Archive". If you open this file, the file might present a security risk to your system.

Do not open the file unless you created the file yourself, or received the file from a trusted source. To open the file, rename the file to the correct extension for "Java Archive", then open the file normally. Alternatively, use the Open With menu to choose a specific application for the file.

WTF? This is a normal OpenOffice document, created with the OpenOffice installed with F7.

BTW this happens with zip files.

I have used Properties->Open With to set "Spreadsheet" as the application to open the document with but this doesn't stop the error (it calls it a warning but never opens the document)

I can use right-click->Open With but why?? This certainly makes desktop linux less desireable to noobs.

Is there a way to change the way gnome/nautilus sees these files??

[nicstevens42]

More detail: The first two letters of the document are PK which is the first two letters of a zip file but if I run "file Foo.ods" I get "OpenDocument Spreadsheet"

[evans]

Originally Posted by nicstevens42

Hi,

BTW this happens with zip files.

What do you mean by this, exactly? You are clicking a zip file that contains an open office spread sheet? My F7 nautilus does not reproduce your error (ie it happily opens ods files when I click them).

Did you install JRE from Sun, or are you using the F7 JRE? You can check what java your system is calling with (as root)

java -version

[nicstevens42]

I'm double clicking on a .ods or .odt file -- which are actually zip files.

Archive:  /home/nic/Desktop/Foo.ods
 Length   Method    Size  Ratio   Date   Time   CRC-32    Name
--------  ------  ------- -----   ----   ----   ------    ----
      46  Stored       46   0%  08-12-07 15:45  8a396c85  mimetype
       0  Stored        0   0%  08-12-07 15:45  00000000  Configurations2/statusbar/
       0  Defl:N        2   0%  08-12-07 15:45  00000000  Configurations2/accelerator/current.xml
       0  Stored        0   0%  08-12-07 15:45  00000000  Configurations2/floater/
       0  Stored        0   0%  08-12-07 15:45  00000000  Configurations2/popupmenu/
       0  Stored        0   0%  08-12-07 15:45  00000000  Configurations2/progressbar/
       0  Stored        0   0%  08-12-07 15:45  00000000  Configurations2/menubar/
       0  Stored        0   0%  08-12-07 15:45  00000000  Configurations2/toolbar/
       0  Stored        0   0%  08-12-07 15:45  00000000  Configurations2/images/Bitmaps/
    5738  Defl:N     1094  81%  08-12-07 15:45  887135cd  content.xml
    6235  Defl:N     1396  78%  08-12-07 15:45  7d19f2f1  styles.xml
    1031  Defl:N      430  58%  08-12-07 15:45  03245434  meta.xml
    1253  Defl:N      729  42%  08-12-07 15:45  593d491e  Thumbnails/thumbnail.png
    7295  Defl:N     1142  84%  08-12-07 15:45  376b58ef  settings.xml
    1873  Defl:N      322  83%  08-12-07 15:45  664d06cc  META-INF/manifest.xml
--------          -------  ---                            -------
   23471             5161  78%                            15 files

Java is Sun Java

java version "1.6.0_01"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_01-b06)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.6.0_01-b06, mixed mode, sharing)

Originally Posted by evans

What do you mean by this, exactly? You are clicking a zip file that contains an open office spread sheet? My F7 nautilus does not reproduce your error (ie it happily opens ods files when I click them).

Did you install JRE from Sun, or are you using the F7 JRE? You can check what java your system is calling with (as root)

java -version

[bryancole]

I'm guessing you've installed the rpm-version of Sun java. This has probably installed some new mime-type handlers on your system. This is problematic, not least because this rpm install can conflict with files from the gcj-java pacakge which comes with Fedora.

As you've discovered, ODF-files are simply zip-files with xml and other content. In fact, Java .jar files are also zip-files (but containing java byte-code).

I'd recommend removing the rpm-version of java and installing the tar.gz package into a local directory e.g. /opt/java/ (this is what I use anayway). Where-ever I have a java app I want to use with the Sun JRE (as opposed to gcj), I add a line to it's start-script adding /opt/java/jre-1.6.X.X/bin to the PATH, so the system finds the Sun java binaries. You can set the location of your chosen JRE in OpenOffice directly (in the Tools->Options->Java dialog).

[nicstevens42]

YAY!

Thanks Bryan! Uninstalling java and installing the self-extracting .bin did the trick!