Hello! I see there are earlier comments on this but they’re three years old and on Windows. My old PC died horribly last month and I couldn’t afford to replace the mobo/psu and the commercial software, so I tentatively dipped my toes into the world of opensource and moved to Ubuntu. So far, I’m very happy, but there are still some challengse.
I installed Apache OpenOffice and JabRef through Ubuntu, using the little orange suitcase with the letter A. I was hoping that since it was all automated they would connect smoothly. But no.
I’m opening my document and then opening JabRef. Autodetection fails with the error message ‘Not on FX application thread; currentThread = pool-3-thread-3’
So OK, let’s try a manual connection, The connection it suggests (/usr/lib/libreoffice) doesn’t work obviously. If I click browse, it takes me to usr/lib but there’s nothing there that looks like it’s OpenOffice. If I try to back up, and go to usr to look for more likely files it won’t let me. It says ‘Error opening directory ‘/usr’: Permission denied’
Hi!
Did you install the snap package on ubuntu?
If you installed from the software store it should be that one.
To verify you can run in a terminal snap list and see if it lists jabref.
In that case the issue is that that package does not yet integrate with libreoffice/openoffice.
If you need that functionality you should install the .deb package downloaded from the jabref website(https://www.fosshub.com/JabRef.html)
Uninstalled and reinstalled from the .deb as per suggestion. That was OK, but it’s been autodetecting paths for over ten minutes now… At least something is happening I suppose.
OK so no, it didn’t do it this time either . I put it the location of the soffice folder manually (ie, usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/orca/scripts/apps/soffice) and it ran autodetect interminably until it wound up failing. The error is:
com.sun.star.comp.helper.BootstrapException
at org.jabref/org.jabref.gui.openoffice.Bootstrap.bootstrap(Unknown Source)
at org.jabref/org.jabref.gui.openoffice.Bootstrap.bootstrap(Unknown Source)
at org.jabref/org.jabref.gui.openoffice.OOBibBase.simpleBootstrap(Unknown Source)
at org.jabref/org.jabref.gui.openoffice.OOBibBase.(Unknown Source)
at org.jabref/org.jabref.gui.openoffice.OpenOfficePanel.createBibBase(Unknown Source)
at org.jabref/org.jabref.gui.openoffice.OpenOfficePanel$2.call(Unknown Source)
at org.jabref/org.jabref.gui.openoffice.OpenOfficePanel$2.call(Unknown Source)
at org.jabref.merged.module/javafx.concurrent.Task$TaskCallable.call(Unknown Source)
at java.base/java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(Unknown Source)
at java.base/java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Unknown Source)
at java.base/java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(Unknown Source)
at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source)
at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source)
at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
I’m sorry, you’re right! It’s been such a blur of installing software and catching up with work I was behind on due to being computer-less that I must have lost track where it came from.
My history shows I downloaded it from openoffice.org on the 4th.
I uninstalled OpenOffice but LibreOffice failed to install. I installed through the command line and got this message:
Errors were encountered while processing:
/tmp/apt-dpkg-install-3uwAwh/011-libreoffice-common_1%3a6.4.3-0ubuntu0.20.04.1_
all.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
I guess that’ an error with the repo sync…
You can try apt install -f to fix the errors…
Or reinstalling libreoffice via the cli, since it might just be a hiccup with the repo mirror
Unpacking libreoffice-common (1:6.4.3-0ubuntu0.20.04.1) …
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/libreoffice-common_1%3a6.
4.3-0ubuntu0.20.04.1_all.deb (–unpack):
trying to overwrite ‘/usr/bin/soffice’, which is also in package openoffice-deb
ian-menus 4.1.7-9800
rmdir: failed to remove ‘/var/lib/libreoffice/share/prereg/’: No such file or di
rectory
rmdir: failed to remove ‘/var/lib/libreoffice/share/’: No such file or directory
rmdir: failed to remove ‘/var/lib/libreoffice/program/’: No such file or directo
ry
rmdir: failed to remove ‘/var/lib/libreoffice’: No such file or directory
rmdir: failed to remove ‘/var/lib/libreoffice’: No such file or directory
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/libreoffice-common_1%3a6.4.3-0ubuntu0.20.04.1_all.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Thanks for sticking with me guys! Sorry I drifted off - I had priority work commitments other than the one that needs a (massive) bibliography!
Sadly sudo apt-get remove openoffice-debian-menus isn’t doing it either. The message is:
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
You might want to run ‘apt --fix-broken install’ to correct these.
The following packages have unmet dependencies.
libreoffice-base : Depends: libreoffice-common (>= 1:6.4.0~beta1-2~) but it is not going to be installed
libreoffice-core : Depends: libreoffice-common (> 1:6.4.3) but it is not going to be installed
libreoffice-java-common : Depends: libreoffice-common but it is not going to be installed
libreoffice-script-provider-bsh : Depends: libreoffice-common but it is not going to be installed
libreoffice-script-provider-js : Depends: libreoffice-common but it is not going to be installed
libreoffice-script-provider-python : Depends: libreoffice-common but it is not going to be installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try ‘apt --fix-broken install’ with no packages (or specify a solution).
sudo apt --fix broken install does some stuff. but I think the problem is here:
Unpacking libreoffice-common (1:6.4.3-0ubuntu0.20.04.1) …
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/libreoffice-common_1%3a6.
4.3-0ubuntu0.20.04.1_all.deb (–unpack):
trying to overwrite ‘/usr/bin/soffice’, which is also in package openoffice-deb
ian-menus 4.1.7-9800
rmdir: failed to remove ‘/var/lib/libreoffice/share/prereg/’: No such file or di
rectory
rmdir: failed to remove ‘/var/lib/libreoffice/share/’: No such file or directory
rmdir: failed to remove ‘/var/lib/libreoffice/program/’: No such file or directo
ry
rmdir: failed to remove ‘/var/lib/libreoffice’: No such file or directory
rmdir: failed to remove ‘/var/lib/libreoffice’: No such file or directory
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/libreoffice-common_1%3a6.4.3-0ubuntu0.20.04.1_all.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
I’m sorry, I don’t know the markup for code.
sudo apt autoremove is also bring back similar messages.
So it seems like I’m screwed all ways. I feel dumb because I didn’t realise LibreOffice was so good - I should have researched more before changing to Apache in the first place.
. I put it the location of the soffice folder manually (ie, usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/orca/scripts/apps/soffice) and it ran autodetect interminably until it wound up failing. The error is: