OpenOffice.org writer crashes when trying to run the launcher macros (eg install dictionaries) without openoffice.org-base installed

confirmed with 2.0.2

How to reproduce:

- Tools / Macros ... / Run macro
- Select OpenOffice.org macros
- Select Launcher ... OOo crashes

because of some problem with reporting this bug, I repored it again as 31283

https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+bug/31283
I posted some info there, including the error output. It looks like a java problem
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BTW the problem is not only in Ubuntu. I obtained the very same result in SimplyMepis 3.4.3

fixed in 2.0.4-0ubuntu2

i try to install a new dictionary with the new dictionary wizard. oowriter crashes. I am using OO 2.2 on kubuntu.

this does not seem to be fixed in version 2.2 - i changed status, hope that's ok!

I tested this on Ubuntu 7.10 on both amd64 and i386. It works on both but only when openoffice.org-base is installed if you have "openoffice.org" package installed it will pull that in also.

Chris

the install dictionaries wizard needs to have the following library

/usr/lib/openoffice/program/libdba680li.so

Confirmed on Kubuntu 7.10, clean install on laptop and desktop machines: on both, OOo 2.3 (wirter or calc!) crashes with almost all macros, incl. dictionary wizard. Installing oo-base fixed the problem.
Note to ubuntu developers: please let oo-base be installed by default! For us newbies it is quite difficult to find this workaround.

Confirmed: I copied /usr/lib/openoffice/program/libdba680li.so from my laptop (OOo-base installed) to the desktop machine, without OOo-base. That was enough to fix the macro crashing problem.
New note to ubuntu developers: if there is not enough room on the Kubuntu Life CD for ooo-base, at least make sure /usr/lib/openoffice/program/libdba680li.so is installed by default.
Thanks!

Accepted into gutsy-proposed, please test:

openoffice.org (1:2.3.0-1ubuntu5.2) gutsy-proposed; urgency=low

  * debian/rules: Rename intro.bmp to openintro_ubuntu.bmp.
    Closes LP: #155125
  * debian/rules move libdba680lx.so from openoffice.org-base to
    openoffice.org-core.
    Closes LP: #24975, #52847, #117648, #134276, #156852, #157512
  * ooo-build/patches/src680/pyuno-rpath-ooodir.diff:
    Closes LP: #132583
  * ooo-build/patches/src680/ooo82608.vcl.gtkbadfree.diff:
    Closes LP: #131526
  * ubuntu/openintro_ubuntu.bmp:
    Update splash screen to right bitmap depth. Closes LP: #157176

 -- Chris Cheney <email address hidden> Sat, 24 Nov 2007 20:07:29 -0600

Just tested 2.3.0-1ubuntu5.3 (don't know why, it seems 2.3.0-1ubuntu5.2 never appeared on any gutsy-proposed mirror).

The fix works for Installing new dictionnairies, I suppose for all macros too. It works as expected, doesn't crash at all.

Thanks for the fix !

Verification done:

Test with openoffice.org 1:2.3.0-1ubuntu5 after follow the test case it crashed.
Test with openoffice.org 1:2.3.0-1ubuntu5.3 after follow the test case it doesn't crash and it show the wizard. the bug is fixed, thanks.

Copied to gutsy-updates.

This has been fixed in openoffice.org 2.3.0-1ubuntu5.3