Zotero 5 NeoOffice Add-in error

jlepawsky

Hello,

Zotero 5's integration with NeoOffice does not appear to be working. I had to to try the manual installation approach, but receive an error from neoOffice 2015.12 Classic Edition Patch 0 stating that the Zotero extension cann be installed because, "the following system dependencies are not fulfilled: OpenOffice.org 4.1".

Zotero and NeOffice have worked smoothly for years prior to the Zotero 5 / Firefox changes of Nov 2017.

Rintze

I think you'll have to upgrade to either NeoOffice 2017 or the latest LibreOffice. Zotero developers have indicated that Zotero nowadays only supports (recent versions of) LibreOffice (https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/comment/290752/#Comment_290752), since OpenOffice has been effectively abandoned. NeoOffice 2015 has a very old foundation from OpenOffice 3.1.1 (from 2009). According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeoOffice:

All versions from NeoOffice 3.1.1 to NeoOffice 2015 were based on OpenOffice.org 3.1.1, though latter versions included stability fixes from LibreOffice and Apache OpenOffice. NeoOffice 2017 and later versions are fully based on LibreOffice

Rintze

I'm actually not sure NeoOffice 2017 would work, since it seems to be based on LibreOffice 4.4 (per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeoOffice), and https://www.zotero.org/support/system_requirements specifies "LibreOffice 5.2 or later" as a requirement for the Zotero LibreOffice plugin.