wizard req'ing JRE fail to start (solution hint)

[fbusse]

Binary package hint: openoffice.org-writer

In OpenOffice.org 3.1.1 (from the Ubuntu repositories), the letter wizard fails to start: After calling the wizard from the menu (German version "Datei->Assistenten->Brief...", translates to something like "File->Wizards->Letter...") happens --- just nothing :-/

 And it's the same with other wizards (German version "Fax", "Agenda" and "Web-Seiten", translates to something like "facsimile", "agenda" and "webpages").

Sun Java 1.6.0 is installed in two alternative flavors:
 - /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-1.6.0.15/jre (standard installation)
 - /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre (manually added)
 Activating either in Extras->Option->OpenOffice.org->Java makes no visible difference as to the above failure.

With Java deactivated (got this hint in a German forum), OOo complains (see attachment) - as one would have expected - about needing a JRE for starting the letter wizard and asks if the same should now be activated. The same error message contains a further hint: The package openoffice.org-java-common needs to be installed! (And indeed this solves the problem.)

Where a package is vital for a function, this one should either be installed by default or at the very least be proposed for installation when the function is called!

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Jan 10 14:46:44 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: openoffice.org-writer 1:3.1.1-5ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-17.54-generic
SourcePackage: openoffice.org
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-17-generic i686

[John McGuckian (jaymac)]

Same issue for me on OOo 3.1.1. Installing openoffice.org-java-common fixed it.

[vgdude999 (vgdude999)]

That worked for me as well.

[Chris Cheney (ccheney)]

Unfortunately there isn't much that can be done here at least until we get automatically installation of the java bits on first run of OOo. As the Java stack does not fit on the CD.

[Damiön la Bagh (kat-amsterdam)]

Again Björn if you are going to change the status to Won't Fix please explain how you came to this decision.

1) Openoffice.org has been replaced by LibreOffice in Ubuntu on the Live CD
2) Karmic is End Of Life

[Björn Michaelsen (bjoern-michaelsen)]

[This is an automated message.]
There are no new official OpenOffice.org releases in Ubuntu packaging anymore => Won't Fix

If the problem persists, please mark this bug as "also affects project Libreoffice" or "also affects distribution Libreoffice (Ubuntu)" if that has not happened already.

Please leave references to upstream OpenOffice.org bugs in place to allow cross pollination.