zotero plugin fails to install on libreoffice 3.4.5 (OS: ubuntu 11.10)

funk123

I'm using the linux mint 12 (basically ubuntu 11.10), and just downloaded and ran zotero standalone for linux (64-bit).

I get error messages when zotero tries to automatically install the openoffice plugin. Here's the error message I see when running run-zotero.sh:

http://img585.imageshack.us/img585/6913/zoteropluginautoinstall.png


I also can't get the plugin to install manually through libreoffice when trying to add the plugin through libreoffice's extension manager:

http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/7470/zoteropluginfail.png


I tried googling some of the wording in these error messages to find answers, but didn't have much luck. Any help on this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Simon

Do you have a Java runtime environment installed as well as the libreoffice-java-common package?

funk123

Simon, thanks for the help.

I had openjdk-6-jre installed as well as libreoffice-java-common. I just installed openjdk-6-jdk and ran libreoffice again. Now I see the zotero toolbar, but the buttons on it are non-responsive. When I go to extension manager, it lists the plugin but says "Error: The status of this extension is unknown." I get error messages similar to the one I linked to above when I try to re-install the plugin manually through extension manager.

Simon

Do you also have the ure package installed? Is the JRE selected in the LibreOffice preferences?

funk123

Yes, I do have ure installed, and jre is selected when I look at the "Java" section of "Options." This is weird.

funk123

Does anyone have any other advice? I'd appreciate it.

adampater

I have a perhaps similar problem failing to load zotero into libreoffice on Ubuntu Precise 64-bit.

32-bit version of "same" installation on a netbook has no problem.

Error from the extension manager is "(com.sun.star.uno.RuntimeException) {{Message = "javaloader error - no mapping from java to C++", Context = (com.sun.start.uno.Xinterface) @0 }}

Simon

adampater: did you check that a JRE and the libreoffice-java-common package are installed, and that a JRE is selected in LibreOffice? Unfortunately, my ability to troubleshoot these kinds of issues is limited, but those would be the first things to try.

adampater

Simon, thank you. I had checked that a JRE and the libre-office-java-common package were installed, but I didn't know to select the JRE from within LibreOffice. Having done that, (Tools-Options-java) all seems to be well.

It seems to me that this might be a bug of some sort in the installation scripts or in the documentation: I didn't know I needed to select the JRE in LibreOffice.

All seems okay now though. Thank you!

adampater

... except for some weirdness which seems to prevent libreoffice-writer starting properly, without a reboot.

Bloody Higg's bosons...