Bug 39909

Summary:	openoffice-bin-1.1.0 can't find it's BASIC scripts
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Craig Lawson <craig.lawson>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Office Team <office>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Craig Lawson 2004-01-30 14:23:01 UTC

When saving a Draw document in OpenOffice 1.1, OO has trouble locating it's own scripts.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install openoffice-bin-1.1.0
2. Create a new Draw document.
3. Save it.

Actual Results:  
A bunch of annoying alerts appeared, each with a variation on the message:

  Error loading BASIC of document
  file:///opt/OpenOffice.org1.1/share/basic/FormWizard/script.xlb/:
  General Error.
  General input/output error.
  [OK]



Expected Results:  
Silently obey my command.



The problem appears to be that OpenOffice is looking in the directory
"/opt/OpenOffice.org1.1" which does not exist. Emerge installed OpenOffice into
a directory named "/opt/OpenOffice.org1.1.0".

As a work around, I created the symbolic link:

  /opt/OpenOffice.org1.1 -> /opt/OpenOffice.org1.1.0

and the alerts immediately ceased.

Seems that an incorrect path was compiled into openoffice-bin-1.1.0.

Comment 1 Andreas Proschofsky (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-01-31 14:29:08 UTC

This only happens if you had a prerelease of 1.1.0 installed before, as we have changed the install dir of ooo-bin inbetween you will have to delete your user install (remove .openoffice and .sversionrc in your home-dir) then it works again without the symlink. Sorry about that inconvenience.