Even though --view is documented in libreoffice --help, it doesn't actually work (libreoffice 3.5.4.2-4.fc17): $ libreoffice --help | grep -- --view --view <documents...> $ libreoffice --view foo.doc Unknown option --view Run 'soffice --help' to see a full list of available command line options. This also makes /usr/bin/ooviewdoc useless as it just invokes libreoffice --view: $ ooviewdoc foo.doc Unknown option --view Run 'soffice --help' to see a full list of available command line options.
-view accepted while --view discarded, and script uses --view, bah. fix will be in >= libreoffice-3.5.5.3-2.fc17
libreoffice-3.5.5.3-2.fc17 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 17. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/libreoffice-3.5.5.3-2.fc17
ooviewdoc is now fixed, but the issue remains in --help output in 3.5.5.3-2, it still says --view, not -view: $ libreoffice --help | grep -A 1 -- -view --view <documents...> open the specified documents in viewer-(readonly-)mode.
Package libreoffice-3.5.5.3-2.fc17: * should fix your issue, * was pushed to the Fedora 17 testing repository, * should be available at your local mirror within two days. Update it with: # su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing libreoffice-3.5.5.3-2.fc17' as soon as you are able to. Please go to the following url: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2012-10468/libreoffice-3.5.5.3-2.fc17 then log in and leave karma (feedback).
The help saying --view is ok by me, both -view and --view should now be accepted and --view should be the preferred I guess seeing as whoever changed all the -longoptions to --longoptions presumably wanted that to be the case
Oh, I didn't notice --view works now as well, just thought the script had been modified. No problem then.
libreoffice-3.5.5.3-2.fc17 has been pushed to the Fedora 17 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.