LibreOffice plugin does not work under Ubuntu 10.04

alobo

I think this can be related to discussion:
"LibreOffice plugin does not work under Ubuntu 11.10"
but have tried the fix mentioned there and does not solve my problem.

My problem: I try to include a reference on a odt document (created on another computer with the same ubuntu ans same versions of the programs) with
LibreOffice 3.3.2
OOO330m19 (Build:202)
tag libreoffice-3.3.2.2

using firefox 3.5. (3.6.24) under ubuntu 10.04, zotero 2.1.10
and plugin Zotero LibreOffice integration 3.5b3
and get a window with the following error (then I click OK and LibreOffice keeps on working, but Firefox gets frozen and have to kill its process):

An error occurred communicating with Zotero:
java.lang.NullPointerException
at
org.zotero.integration.ooo.comp.Comm.getMessageResponse(Comm.java:190)
at
org.zotero.integration.ooo.comp.Comm.readMessage(Comm.java:128)
at
org.zotero.integration.ooo.comp.Comm.mainLoop(Comm.java:241)
at
org.zotero.integration.ooo.comp.Comm.mainLoop(Comm.java:241)
at
org.zotero.integration.ooo.comp.Comm.mainLoop(Comm.java:241)
at
org.zotero.integration.ooo.comp.Comm.mainLoop(Comm.java:241)
at
org.zotero.integration.ooo.comp.Comm.mainLoop(Comm.java:241)
at
org.zotero.integration.ooo.comp.Comm.mainLoop(Comm.java:241)
at org.zotero.integration.ooo.comp.Comm.run(Comm.java:267)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)

Thanks for your help

Agus

Simon

Looks like http://www.zotero.org/support/word_processor_plugin_troubleshooting?do=login#nullpointerexception_or_lastdatalistener_is_undefined_error

alobo

Cannot access that link, but can access:
http://www.zotero.org/support/word_processor_plugin_troubleshooting#nullpointerexception_or_lastdatalistener_is_undefined_error

which I understand is the same one, isn't it?

Anyway, I do not see the error message mentioned there is related to the one I get and just reinstalling the plugin as it mentions does not solve the problem.

Agus

alobo

Solved.
I think I had a problem with a previous version of the plugin
that was installed for openoffice.
The problem was solved by:
1. Uninstalling the plugin from firefox
2. Uninstalling openoffice (not sure it was required, but it's normally done before installing libreoffice and I did not):
I used
sudo apt-get purge openoffice*.*
as advised in
http://www.ubuntugeek.com/install-libreoffice-in-ubuntu-11-0410-1010-04-using-ppa.html
3. Install the plugin from within firefox
4. Start libreoffice: the plugin was not there. Close libreoffice
5. In Firefox: Tools/Add-ons/Zotero LibreOffice integration/Preferences/Reinstall Extension
6. Start libreoffice, the plugin was there and working.
Not sure all steps were actually needed...