Open Microsoft Office 2007 .docx files in amd64 Debian (Squeeze / Sid) Unstable with odf-converter-integrator

Saturday, 19th September 2009

After my upgrade to Debian Unstable I experienced problems with opening the microsoft office 2007 .docx files.
The error message that poped up every time I tried opening a docx file was:
Read-Error. Data could not be read from the file
I wasted some time looking for people who experienced the same issue and possible solution to the situation.
Unfortunately I couldn’t find any fix online until I found the fix on my own experimenting installing different versions of the odf-converter-integrator.
First I’ve tried updating my current installed odf-converter-integrator version, which was odf-converter-integrator 0.2.1.
I’ve upgraded to a version odf-converter-integrator_0.2.2_i386.deb.
Unluckily that the problem persisted, so I tried some other suggested possible work arounds, none of which worked.
I was sure there should be a way to make it work so I continued trying stuff until I FOUND THE SOLUTION.
The solution was as simple as downloading odf-converter-integrator_strawberry_0.2.3-2_i386.deb from the odf-converter-integrator download page
And next install it executing:
dpkg -i –force-all odf-converter-integrator_strawberry_0.2.3-2_i386.deb
Hooray opening docx works corretly on my Debian Unstable now! I bet it works for you as well 🙂 Praise the Lord!
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5 Responses to “Open Microsoft Office 2007 .docx files in amd64 Debian (Squeeze / Sid) Unstable with odf-converter-integrator”

  1. Elaine says:
    Firefox 3.6.10 Firefox 3.6.10 Ubuntu 10.04 x64 Ubuntu 10.04 x64
    Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.10) Gecko/20100915 Ubuntu/10.04 (lucid) Firefox/3.6.10

    That’s brilliant, thanks.

    Just one little tip it needs two little lines before the force, e.g. — force so it should look like this sudo dpkg -i –force-all odf-converter-integrator_strawberry_0.2.3-2_i386.deb

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    • admin says:
      Epiphany 2.30.6 Epiphany 2.30.6 Debian GNU/Linux x64 Debian GNU/Linux x64
      Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-us) AppleWebKit/531.2+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0 Safari/531.2+ Debian/squeeze (2.30.6-1) Epiphany/2.30.6

      Thx for the tip man!

      Cya around

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  2. Elaine says:
    Firefox 3.6.10 Firefox 3.6.10 Ubuntu 10.04 x64 Ubuntu 10.04 x64
    Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.10) Gecko/20100915 Ubuntu/10.04 (lucid) Firefox/3.6.10

    Ok it doesn’t show up well on the web page, here goes – – force

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  3. Mortan says:
    Firefox 3.6.12 Firefox 3.6.12 Ubuntu 10.04 x64 Ubuntu 10.04 x64
    Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101027 Ubuntu/10.04 (lucid) Firefox/3.6.12

    This helped me a lot! Works perfectly now! Lots of thanks from here! 🙂

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  4. dahdash says:
    Firefox 4.0.1 Firefox 4.0.1 GNU/Linux x64 GNU/Linux x64
    Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:2.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0.1

    Thanks a million.

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