<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">That worked!<br><br>So to summarize and clean it up so others can do this easily:<br><br>From Konsole:<br><br>mkdir /home/kris/.openoffice.org/3r<br>ln -s /home/kris/.openoffice.org/3 /home/kris/.openoffice.org/3r<br>ln -s /home/kris/.openoffice.org/3/user/uno_packages /home/kris/.openoffice.org/3r/uno_packages<br><br>I think I got that right, and it avoids the confusion some people have with being in the correct directory to make the link. Note the space between the source directory and the target directory. Of course replace 'kris' with your user name. <br><br>...Jeff<br><br>--- On <b>Mon, 7/13/09, Kris Moore <i><kris@pcbsd.org></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Kris Moore <kris@pcbsd.org><br>Subject: Re: [PC-BSD Testing] Open Office template
errors<br>To: "PC-BSD Testing list" <testing@lists.pcbsd.org><br>Date: Monday, July 13, 2009, 5:19 PM<br><br><div class="plainMail"><br>Jeff,<br><br>It takes a bit for me to get around to testing various things :) OpenOffice is a beast, so bear with us.<br><br>I did some digging, and I've found a workaround, not sure of a real bugfix yet though. Take a look at your<br>error you posted:<br><br>/usr/home/Jeff/.openoffice.org/3r/uno_packages/cache/uno_packages/yTznki_/OOOP-templates-separated-en-US-2.6.0.2.oxt/template/en-US/forms/Confidentiality_Agreement.ott does not exist<br><br>I installed a template package, and had the exact same error. So I delved into the .openoffice.org directory, and found the<br>directory "openoffice.org/3r/" doesn't exist. I created a symlink from openoffice.org/3 -> openoffice.org/3r. Then I cd to 3r, and noticed that "uno_packages" doesn't exist, its under user/uno_packages. I went ahead and made another sym-link in
/home/kris/.openoffice.org/3r/:<br><br> # ln -s `pwd`/user/uno_packages uno_packages<br><br>Then I booted up openoffice, and viola! I can see all the templates and use them just fine. So for some reason in the OpenOffice<br>extension manager, when it extracts / installs, it uses a weird path, which doesn't exist in the home profile.<br><br>We'll have to dig into OO source (shudder) to figure out why this is bugged.<br><br>In the meantime, you can use this workaround, and your templates should magically begin working again.<br><br><br>--<br>Kris Moore<br>PC-BSD Software<br><br>On Mon, 13 Jul 2009, Jeff wrote:<br><br>> Nobody monitoring pbi-bugs?<br>> <br>> Reposting here as others may want to test this.<br>> -------------------------<br>> I was successful at importing some template pack extensions in the new Open Office release, but trying to access the templates results in<br>> this error:<br>> <br>> Error creating a new
document:<br>> /usr/home/Jeff/.openoffice.org/3/user/template does not exist.<br>> <br>> So I created that directory but then received another error when trying to open a template:<br>> <br>> Error creating a new document:<br>> /usr/home/Jeff/.openoffice.org/3r/uno_packages/cache/uno_packages/yTznki_/OOOP-templates-separated-en-US-2.6.0.2.oxt/template/en-US/forms/C<br>> onfidentiality_Agreement.ott does not exist.<br>> <br>> Ditto for all templates - the error persists, indexing through all the available templates.<br>> <br>> !DSPAM:1,4a5b9499825691367518398!<br>> �</div><br>-----Inline Attachment Follows-----<br><br><div class="plainMail">_______________________________________________<br>Testing mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:Testing@lists.pcbsd.org" href="/mc/compose?to=Testing@lists.pcbsd.org">Testing@lists.pcbsd.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.pcbsd.org/mailman/listinfo/testing"
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