When I try to open an attachment with a .doc extension, I get the following
message: "such-and-such.doc could not be opened, because the associated
helper application does not exist. Change the association in your preferences."

I am running thunderbird 2.0.0.4 which came bundled in the purchased Mandriva
Spring 2008 DVD (32 bit).

When I click on Edit/Preferences/View and Edit Actions, there is no
association for the .doc extension. The .doc extension does not exist (only
..zip and .jpg are displayed).

When I go to Tools and look for "Options", there is no such subheading.

Any help for associating the .doc extension with a program would be appreciated.

Jack

Jack wrote:
> When I try to open an attachment with a .doc extension, I get the
> following message: "such-and-such.doc could not be opened, because the
> associated helper application does not exist. Change the association in
> your preferences."
>
> I am running thunderbird 2.0.0.4 which came bundled in the purchased
> Mandriva Spring 2008 DVD (32 bit).
>
> When I click on Edit/Preferences/View and Edit Actions, there is no
> association for the .doc extension. The .doc extension does not exist
> (only .zip and .jpg are displayed).
>
> When I go to Tools and look for "Options", there is no such subheading.
>
> Any help for associating the .doc extension with a program would be
> appreciated.

Do you have Open Office on your system? The oo-word processor should
handle .doc files quite nicely. Set up an association. At worst,
you might have to go to advanced and edit the config file by hand,
modeling on the lines for handling zip and jpg files.

Cheers!

jim b.


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On Sun, 13 Jul 2008 21:14:21 -0400, Jack <jdunn110@cox.net> wrote:

> Any help for associating the .doc extension with a program would be appreciated.

If you haven't already done so, set up the update repositories using
drakrpm-edit-media.

If you prefer to use the menus, run mcc using Menu, Tools, System Tools, Configure
your Computer. In mcc select the Software Management tab, then select Configure
media sources for install and update. Select the Add button, then select Full
set of sources, and keep selecting yes/ok, till it has added the repositories.

Once the repositories have been setup, install openoffice.org, either by
running "urpmi openoffice.org" (as root), or using the menus as follows.
Run mcc using Menu, Tools, System Tools, Configure your Computer.
In mcc, run rpmdrake by selecting the Software Management tab, then Install &
Remove Software. Once it's loaded the list of available packages, type
"openoffice" (all lowercase, without the quotes) in the search field,
and press enter. Then select openoffice.org, Office suite (ooo-build)
and click on apply.

Regards, Dave Hodgins

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