Impress unavailable with Ubuntu 11.10

Jonas

Hello,

I'm going to try OpenLP with Ubuntu 11.10 64bit. In the presentation settings impress is unavailable.

LibreOffice was manually installed in /opt/libreoffice3.4 (Version 3.4.4).

Where does OpenLP search for impress?

Can anyone help me?

Thanks in advance, Jonas

raoul

OpenLP looks for LibreOffice in the default location on Ubuntu. Since you've installed LibreOffice in a different location, OpenLP doesn't know where to find it. I recommend rather using the version of LibreOffice that comes with Ubuntu.

If for some reason you can't, you need to make sure that you symlink the LibreOffice binaries (specifically soffice) to /usr/bin.

mikefreeman

I know this is an older thread, but I'm having this problem with Linux Mint 17 (based on Ubuntu 14.04). OpenLP cannot detect LibreOffice Impress. Settings -> Presentations shows a grayed-out "Impress (unavailable)". This is with the LibreOffice that comes with Ubuntu 14.04/Linux Mint 17, and OpenLP 2.0.4. I do have soffice at /usr/bin. In another similar thread, it was mentioned that python-uno was needed. However, that package does not exist. Any suggestions?

janovicst

oiaohm

https://packages.debian.org/sid/python-uno
http://www.ubuntuupdates.org/package/core/precise/main/proposed/python-uno


janovicst this is getting horrible. 
Ubuntu has deleted python-uno.   There is no python 2 for Libreoffice
in Ubuntu any more.   libreoffice-script-provider-python is not bridge
openlp is looking for.   python-uno.

Debian still has upto date python-uno for python 2 support.

Its not that Impress/Libreoffice does not have python 2 binding its
that a lot of Linux distributions have chosen to drop them since
upstream Libreoffice has dropped them.  Yes its getting more and more we need the next version with Python3 support.   The debian package might work forced installed but that is pushing things.