Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Open Office 2 Google Docs Extension on Ubuntu 10.04

As I've seen in numerous posts elsewhere, I had issues installing the OO2GDocs extension for Open Office.  I am running Open Office 3.2 on Ubuntu 10.04.  I got the following error message:

ubuntu 10.04 error: (com.sun.star.registry.CannotRegisterImplementationException??) {{ Message = "", Context = (com.sun.star.uno.XInterface) @0}}

After digging around for a while, I tried installing just the openoffice.org-java-common package from the command line.  After installing that and then restarting Open Office, the OO2GDocs extension installed.  However, much to my dismay, the OO2GDocs extension was non-functional.

Then I did the following:
  • Removed the OO2Docs extension from within the Extension Manager
  • Shut down Open Office
  • Installed the entire openoffice.org package from the command line
  • Opened Open Office, and voila!
After doing this, I was able to install and use the gdocs_2.3.1.oxt extension in Open Office 3.2 without issue:

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