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openoffice.org package

Impossible to enable java in openoffice.org

Bug #228003 reported by joehill
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openoffice.org (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: openoffice.org

I've installed Hardy on several computers and on each one it is impossible to enable java with the standard installation.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Go to Options->Java, select "Add" JRE
2. Browse to Java installation, click on the Java home folder
3. Error: this folder does not contain a JRE, continue to select any folder ad infinitum, none are recognized to have a JRE
4. Install "openoffice.org" metapackage (not installed by default)
5. Surf to the JRE directory of choice.
6. Java now works.

Some necessary package (openoffice.org-java-common?) seems to be missing in the default install. I think since so many OO.o filters and functions depend on java, it should be enabled by default.

At the very least, there should be a useful message: "Java is not enabled by default. Please install openoffice.org-java-common and try again" instead of the misleading message that there is no JRE.

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thikrat (thikrat) wrote :

I had the same issue and this fixed it, however, I agree that this is a bug and whatever is needed for Java in OO should be installed as part of the base package.

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Chris Cheney (ccheney) wrote :

There isn't enough room on the cd's and was noted in the release notes.

http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/releasenotes/804

"
OpenOffice.org database, Java, equation editor support

* For reasons of disk space, the database and equation editor components of OpenOffice.org, as well as Java integration support, are not included on the installation CDs. To get the full OpenOffice.org suite after install, you can select "OpenOffice.org Office Suite" from the Applications -> Add/Remove menu, or install the openoffice.org metapackage using the package manager.
"

Changed in openoffice.org:
status: New → Invalid
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joehill (joseph-hill) wrote :

I understand the space issue considering that everything has to fit on a live CD. But I still think this could be handled in a much more user-friendly way, without giving users false options and then false error messages. Users would be spared a lot of time and frustration if, from the beginning, instead of seeing the option of selecting a JRE (and then the false message blaming it on the user for not selecting a direcrory containing a JRE), they saw a notice saying something like: "OpenOffice.org is currently not set up to use a JRE. Please click here to install openoffice.org-java-common."

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Chris Cheney (ccheney) wrote :

It should in almost all cases tell you "Please install the openoffice.org-java-common package for this functionality." if you try to use java functionality. It may be that you didn't trigger the message somehow. It wasn't added until openoffice.org 1:2.4.0-3ubuntu6 so I don't know if you had that version when you initially filed the bug report.

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