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Blazeix

Member

Registered: 2006-10-26

Posts: 25

OpenOffice Extension Manager

Hi,
  In OpenOffice 2.4 there is an extension manager (Tools->Extension Manager), and it doesn't seem to be working on my laptop. When I try to launch this extension manager from inside OpenOffice nothing is displayed and there are no errors or output, even if I launch OpenOffice from the command line. I tried accessing the GUI by launching /opt/openoffice/program/unopkg, and got the following error

$ ./unopkg gui

ERROR: no service object raising singleton /singletons/com.sun.star.deployment.thePackageManagerFactory

unopkg failed.

This is a fresh, two-day-old install of arch linux and openoffice, so I'm not sure if it is broken like this in the package itself or if I just haven't configured something. Thanks for any help.

Eivuwan

Member

Registered: 2008-06-28

Posts: 30

Re: OpenOffice Extension Manager

I have the exact same problem as you. Has anyone figure this one out yet? I have no idea how to fix this.

tigrmesh

IRC Op

From: Florida, US

Registered: 2007-12-11

Posts: 794

Re: OpenOffice Extension Manager

Check the bug tracker for open office.  Maybe someone has posted a workaround for this.

iBertus

Member

From: Greenville, NC

Registered: 2004-11-04

Posts: 2,228

Re: OpenOffice Extension Manager

Two things, (1) do you have a java environment installed? (2), it works here on my Arch64 setup.

firewalker

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From: Hellas (Greece).

Registered: 2006-06-05

Posts: 552

Re: OpenOffice Extension Manager

It works fine for me.

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Eivuwan

Member

Registered: 2008-06-28

Posts: 30

Re: OpenOffice Extension Manager

Ok, I DO have java installed and did a few searches in the openoffice issue tracker and nothing came up. Well, the only thing that came up was for openoffice 2.3 and it was resolved as a build issue... perhaps I should try downloading and reinstalling it from another mirror.

Update: I just reinstall openoffice and it still won't work

Last edited by Eivuwan (2008-07-09 23:24:18)

kclive18

Member

From: Columbus, Ohio, USA

Registered: 2008-05-08

Posts: 219

Re: OpenOffice Extension Manager

Go to your Openoffice general options and check out the Java section.  You should be using the jre that you installed.

EDIT:  The extensions manager works fine for me as well.

Last edited by kclive18 (2008-07-10 11:54:13)

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Eivuwan

Member

Registered: 2008-06-28

Posts: 30

Re: OpenOffice Extension Manager

It's checked so I AM using java.

profylno

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Registered: 2008-09-23

Posts: 10

Re: OpenOffice Extension Manager

Ditto. Anyone figured this out yet?

EDIT: Nevermind!! I found the answer (at least, it worked for me) here: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=56713 (YAY!)

Last edited by profylno (2008-10-31 20:41:40)