When I try to install a extension, say presenter-screen, through the extension manager I get following error: loading componennt library faild: file://home/USER/.ooo3/user/uno_packages/cache/uno_packages/kWe5fK_/sun-presenter-screen.oxt/PresenterScreen.uno.so Also system wide installation as root doesn't work either Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. install openoffice USE="cups dbus gstreamer gtk java kde ldap linguas_de linguas_en mono nspluginopengl pam" 2. download extension from extension site 3. install them through extension manager Actual Results: error as mention above Expected Results: successful installation... ~ $ emerge --info Portage 2.1.6.1 (default/linux/x86/2008.0/desktop, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.24-tuxonice-r9 i686) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.24-tuxonice-r9-i686-Intel-R-_Pentium-R-_M_processor_1400MHz-with-glibc2.0 Timestamp of tree: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 15:35:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 3.2_p33 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7-r1, 2.1.6 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4-r13, 2.5.2-r7 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6 dev-util/cmake: 2.4.6-r1 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.0 sys-apps/openrc: 0.3.0-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61-r2 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.1-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.26 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.23-r3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=pentium-m -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/share/config/kdm/ /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/config /var/lib/hsqldb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium-m -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.switch.ch/mirror/gentoo/ ftp://mirror.switch.ch/mirror/gentoo/" LANG="de_CH.utf8" LC_ALL="de_CH.utf8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" LINGUAS="en de de_DE de_CH" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage/local/mg /usr/portage/local/layman/enlightenment" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="7Zip X a52 aac accessibility acl acpi alsa amarok asf avahi berkdb binfilter bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdda cdr chm cjk clearcase cli cpudetection cracklib crypt cups dbus dga dlloader dri dts dv dvb dvdr dvdread eds effects emboss encode evo extramodules fam fat ffmpeg fftw firefox flac foomaticdb fortran freetype gdbm gif gimpprint gnokii gnutls gphoto2 gpm gs gstreamer gtk hal hfs iconv icq ieee1394 imap inkjar ipod ipv6 irc irda isdnlog jabber java jfs jpeg kde kdeenablefinal kdehiddenvisibility kipi krb4 laptop lcd ldap libao libcaca libnotify live lm_sensors logitech-mouse lzo mad mail matroska midi mikmod mjpeg mmx mono mp3 mpeg mpm-prefork msn mudflap musepack musicbrainz mysql mythtv ncurses network nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin ntfs ogg opengl openmp pam pcmcia pcre pda pdf perl plugin png postgres ppds pppd python qt qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime quotas rar rdesktop readline reflection samba scanner sdl session slp sms sndfile speech speex spell spl spreadsheet ssl startup-notification stream streams subversion svg switch_all_desktops sysfs tcpd theora tiff truetype unicode usb v4l2 vcd visualization voice vorbis weather wifi win32codecs winbind wmf x264 x86 xfs xine xinerama xml xorg xprint xscreensaver xv xvid xvmc zeroconf zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev wacom" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en de de_DE de_CH" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="i810 fbdev intel vesa" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Sometimes the post-install messages are really helpful ;) Those tell you to use the locally built extensions and not the ones from the SUN Extension site. The path is: /usr/lib/openoffice/share/extension/install/ or /usr/lib64/openoffice/share/extension/install/ if you are on 64-bit...
