[CentOS] Problem getting Java Runtime Environment installed intoOpenOffice

Fri Mar 7 18:40:26 UTC 2008
Ross S. W. Walker <rwalker at medallion.com>

Therese Trudeau wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm having trouble getting my new install of OpenOffice 2.31 
> to find my newly installed Java Runtime Environment version 
> jre1.6.0_04 (downloaded from Sun).  I tried installing it via 
> Tools>Options>Java (am using OpenOffice Calc to try to set it 
> up).  The options  dialog box is finding the Free Software 
> Foundation version 1.4.2, but it won't find the new JRE file.
> 
> I tried clicking on Add and tried just about every directory 
> I could think of and it's just not finding the JRE.  I 
> believe after doing a search, that the newly installed JRE is 
> located in the /usr/java/jre1.6.0_04 directory, and went to 
> that dir in the options dialog box in Calc, and tried every 
> dir and sub dir in that main dir, and Calc is still is not seeing it.
> 
> Can anyone please give me an idea as to how to find JRE and 
> get it plugged in to OpenOffice?

Look at the thread from today about Firefox and Java plugin.

In particular the posts concerning the use of 'alternatives'

-Ross

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