OOo 2.0 and Sun Java 1.5?

[Charles Curley]

On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 02:19:55PM +0100, Tarjei Knapstad wrote:
> I'm trying to get OOo to recognize and use Sun's JRE on FC4 but I
> can't quite figure out how. I've built and installed JDK 1.5.0 RPMS
> using the SRPM from JPackage.org. When I open the Java options dialog
> in the OOo settings it recognizes the FSF 1.4.2 JRE, but if I try to
> "Add.." another JRE I just can't figure out what OOo wants to see.
> What directory/files is it looking for?
> 
> Also I'm a bit surprised that OOo doesn't find the Sun JRE in /usr in
> the first place. /usr/bin/java symlinks to /etc/alternatives/java
> which again is a symlink to /usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.5.0-sun/bin/java (I've
> tried adding /usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.5.0-sun/bin/ in OOo without success).
> 
> Any pointers appreciated!

To which OOo 2.0 are you referring, the one from the Fedora updates
repository, or the one from OOo's web site?

I have not tried what you describe with the Fedora version of OOo. I
have tried gettng the OOo version to recognize the jpackage JRE on
FC4, with no sucess.

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