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...

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