[TriLUG] openoffice and java

[Donald Ball]

On Wed, 15 Aug 2001, Benjamin Reed wrote:

> rpjday at mindspring.com [rpjday at mindspring.com] wrote:
> >   go back to open office and ... nothing.  the install continues
> > to insist that there is no JRE on the machine that it can see, even
> > when i use the browse dialog and rub its nose in the /usr/java
> > directory.
>
> I ran into this too; I think what's happening is OpenOffice is looking in
> specific places for specific versions of the JRE, instead of writing code
> to search for it, so it just completely misses new revisions.  An older
> version of StarOffice let you pick the directory, apparently OpenOffice
> doesn't anymore?  :P
>
> Best bet is to grab the 1.3.1 (or maybe even 1.3.0) JDK and give that a shot,
> I guess...

get blackdown's port of the jdk. it's more stable and more performant than
sun's port.

- donald