can't install open office plug in for mac - error ref: 1988174668

TWN1 · October 25, 2011

Hallo!

I've been through all the trouble shooting stages but not joy. The error message on manual install is "could not create java implementation loader".

I'm running 10.6.8 on a macbook. The Openoffice version is 3.2.0. The Zotero version is 2.1.10. The plugin thing is Zotero OpenOffice.org Integration 3.5b1.

All brand spanking new. And I've checked - Java is installed on my mac.
The error ref if you can't see it is: 1988174668

Please can someone show me how to do it!?
Many thanks,
Tom

adamsmith · October 25, 2011

http://www.zotero.org/support/word_processor_plugin_troubleshooting#could_not_create_java_implementation_loader1

update to Ooo 3.3. (or better yet, switch to Libre Office - Open Office looks increasingly dead and LO increasingly vibrant).

TWN1 · October 26, 2011

Finally, many thanks. (Installing and learning another WP package though: too much hassle for the time being for me.)

adamsmith · October 26, 2011

(Libre Office is effectively the same as Ooo - they took the Ooo code and split off because Oracle was making Ooo development impossible - you won't really see the difference. The changes so far are 90% under the hood.)

FHeimburger · October 26, 2011

Just to reiterate what adamsmith said : Libreoffice is effectively the same as Open Office AND it may very well solve your problem. At a training session I ran yesterday, we kept having students on macs running into problems installing the openoffic integration and despite throwing every possible solution I could think of at the problems, there was no way to get it running. Everything worked like a dream every time with Libre Office, once I started suggesting they install that instead.

In fact, I would be v interested in hearing if anyone else has had this experience - if this is general, the suggestion to move to Libreoffice should probably be included in documentation somewhere.