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OpenOffice Installation Problem

tfoudray — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 17:59:31 GMT

I've gotten everything working with my alfresco install except openoffice integration.I'm running on ubuntu linux, with mySQL(14.7) and apache tomcat(5.5.12), and attempting to connect to openoffice 2.0.2-2ubuntuI installed xubuntu for testing purposes, so I do not have the usual startup bug that is

Re: OpenOffice Installation Problem

tfoudray — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 18:46:20 GMT

A bit more info….

I attempted to run it with a more 'standard' sort of configuration, using Xvfb, and got identical results, including the unexpected disconnection.

It seems like it may be related to the installation of openoffice from ubuntu. Some people mentioned difficulties with openoffice on ubuntu elsewhere on the forums, but none seemed particularly detailed or useful..

Has anyone had success installing openoffice integration in alfresco 1.4 on ubuntu at all?

Re: OpenOffice Installation Problem

tfoudray — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 20:14:37 GMT

following suggestions from:
http://forums.alfresco.com/viewtopic.php?t=4136

I tried the following:
1) adding a sleep between openoffice start and alfresco start, to no avail.
2) restarting openoffice and tomcat in various orders, again with no effect.

although the symptoms seem to be identical to those mentioned in that thread, none of the suggestions there seem to be having any effect.

Re: OpenOffice Installation Problem

silvia — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 10:47:56 GMT

Hello!

I have the same problem with OpenOffice and Alfresco and I have tried all the suggestions mentioned unsuccesfully.

Did you find the solution??

Thanks!!

S.

Re: OpenOffice Installation Problem

tfoudray — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 19:18:17 GMT

Due to our current needs, we have opted to table the alfresco/openoffice integration for the time being, so I didn't spend much time on it after posting, and never managed to get it working.

Re: OpenOffice Installation Problem

steve — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 16:39:16 GMT

Hi,

Your problems come from the fact that you are running OO headless - which means that the registration dailog will not be shown!

You should stop Tomcat/Jboss and stop the Alfresco Openoffice service. Then perform an action that will show the OO gui - like opening an OO document.

Then, you'll see the registration dialog!

I have just found some new steps on the Openoffice website that should disable the registration dialog for newer OO versions and have added a link to it on our Wiki here:
http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Running_OpenOffice_From_Terminal#Manual_registration.2C_without_a_UI

Try that to see if it solves your problems.

Steve