I am using version 2.0 of OpenOffice.org. My problem is :
When attempting to add an existing JRE into OpenOffice, a misleading error
message can be returned.
I installed OO and attempted to add my existing JRE into it.
My JRE is located in '/usr/local/lib/java/jdk/jre'
I browsed to that directory in the [Add...] dialog in
[Tools]->[Options...]->OpenOffice.org/Java and clicked [Select].
OpenOffice then put up a dialog saying:
"The folder you selected does not contain a Java runtime environment".
I tried repeatedly with different directories, but nothing was working.
Eventually I 'straced' OpenOffice and determined that rather than being a
missing file in my directory, it was the fact that a Java class called
JREProperties was missing from my OpenOffice installation.
The reason it was missing was that I installed my version of OpenOffice via
the debian packages and did not spot the openoffice.org-java-common package
was not installed as part of the process.
However, it would have been nice if rather than suggest that my JRE was
missing, OpenOffice would do a check for "JREProperties.class" (and possibly
other Java related components) before allowing the "Use a Java runtime
environment" checkbox to be ticked.
If it had put up a warning that my installation did not contain all the
required components to allow Java to be used, I would have gone looking for
missing packages immediately rather than trying to debug my Java installation
(which is fine).
Cheers,
David
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