Bug#475008: openoffice.org: OOo does not work with installed Java

["Derrick Karpo" <dkarpo@gmail.com>]

Hi Rene.

On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 12:40 AM, Rene Engelhard <rene@debian.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
>
>  Derrick Karpo wrote:
>  > Frank, can you please confirm that you have 'openoffice.org'
>  > installed?  I was able to reproduce this bug on sid and the problem
>  > occurred when 'openoffice.org' was not installed.  Without this
>  > package, openoffice would fail with a "javaldx: Could not find a Java
>  > Runtime Environment!" message and removing all traces of gij, libgcj,
>  > $PATH, $JAVA_HOME, and .openoffice.org2 did not solve the problem.
>  > Installing 'openoffice.org' corrected the issue in this case.
>
>  That's doesn't make sense.
>  openoffice.org is *empty* except the files the policy mandates and some
>  files for reportbug. No files without any effect on OOo itself.

Agreed.

>
>  rene@frodo:~$ dpkg -L openoffice.org
>  /.
>  /usr
>  /usr/share
>  /usr/share/bug
>  /usr/share/bug/openoffice.org
>  /usr/share/bug/openoffice.org/control
>  /usr/share/bug/openoffice.org/presubj
>  /usr/share/doc
>  /usr/share/doc/openoffice.org
>  /usr/share/doc/openoffice.org/copyright
>  /usr/share/doc/openoffice.org/README.gz
>  /usr/share/doc/openoffice.org/changelog.Debian.gz
>  /usr/share/doc/openoffice.org/README.Debian.gz
>  /usr/share/doc/openoffice.org/changelog.
>
>  Of course, installing openoffice.org might have pulled you
>  openoffice.org-java-common in, but he has it already.

Indeed.  When openoffice.org was installed it pulled in a bunch of
dependencies which I did not include in my response.  In my case, this
was a previously working openoffice install on sid that stopped
working after an upgrade to the latest packages which I believe is a
similar circumstance to Frank.

>
>  And he already *did* tell it was a problem with his profile.

You may have Frank confused with Guy as I don't believe Frank has
tried removing his openoffice profile yet.  When Guy removed his
~/.openoffice.org2 profile the problem was resolved for him.

>
>  Regards,
>
>  Rene
>

In my case, I suspect a previous sid update removed the required
openoffice packages that then left openoffice in a bad state.  Once
openoffice.org and it's dependencies were installed it works again as
expected.  If there is anything you would like me to test please let
me know.

Thanks.

Derrick