On Lu, 2003-11-17 at 14:07, Paul Thomas wrote: > On 17/11/2003 08:59 Marius Andreiana wrote: > > Hi > > > > How to setup jave for openoffice.org? OO.o says one should run jvmsetup, > > but that binary is missing on FC1. > > Tools - Options doesn't have any reference to java. > Tools->Options->OpenOffice.org->Security It only enables it if it was previously setup with jvmsetup. Here's the explanation from fedora-devel:
First, the issue of missing Java. We do not build OOo with Java enabled, because we cannot distribute a JVM with Fedora. Therefore, Java support in OOo is disabled. Debian does the same thing, with the same patches. Things that use Java, for example the Report Wizard, will not function on the current Red Hat RPMs.
What I'm looking at is a good way to perhaps _build_ with Java here, but allow OOo to run on non-Java-enabled systems and Java-enabled systems at the same time. That's not exactly easy though.
For the time being, if you'd like to use Java, I'd suggest grabbing the SRPM and removing the "--disable-java" from the ./configure options, and also commenting out all the "handle-no-solar-java" patches.
I should have checked this out more thoroughly before posting :( I wrongly thought that that because the options were enabled, you could just check the Java chechbox and get it working. Wrong! It doesn't save the checkbox state. I wonder if its possible to install the OOo binary distribution over the top of the FC binaries and get Java that way? Or maybe some kind soul might rebuild the rpm with Java enabled?
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