OOo 2.0 and Sun Java 1.5?

Tarjei Knapstad tarjei.knapstad at gmail.com
Fri Nov 4 09:18:15 UTC 2005


On 11/3/05, Charles Curley <charlescurley at charlescurley.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 04:28:46PM +0100, Tarjei Knapstad wrote:
> > On 11/3/05, Ian Pilcher <i.pilcher at comcast.net> wrote:
> > > Tarjei Knapstad wrote:
> > > > Sounds like it might be an OOo problem then, I find it pretty annoying
> > > > that the OOo documentation doesn't specify what you're supposed to
> > > > point to when adding a JRE...
> > >
> > > I'm pretty sure that the Fedora version of OO.o is patched to work with
> > > the GNU runtime.  This may make it incompatible with other JVM's.
> > >
> > > You might try removing the Fedora packages and downloading the upstream
> > > version.
> > >
> >
> > Ah, I see. Thanks.
> >
> > According to Charles Curley it doesn't work if you install the
> > upstream RPM's from OOo either though, so it might be something
> > else...
>
> What I tried and which did not work was finding the jpackage (fc4
> native) JRE with the upstream OOo RPMs.
>
> Indeed, on my laptop I have the upstream OOo RPMs and Sun's
> jdk-1.5.0_01-fcs RPM, and the upstream OOo finds the JRE. So Ian is
> correct.
>

OK, thanks for the info Charles!

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Tarjei




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