Package: jabref Version: 3.8.1+ds-3 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
The Libreoffice "connect" feature does not appear to work in this version of jabref by default. The "manual connect" feature [1][2] fails as it is looking for several .jar files: unoil.jar jurt.jar juh.jar ridl.jar These files are located in some of these folders (but not all): /usr/share/java/ /usr/lib/libreoffice/program/classes/ /usr/share/libreoffice/program/classes/ which are not in the default paths listed by the program. Furthermore, as jabref insists on appending "program/classes/" to any path that you specify, you can only access them by supplying "/usr/lib/libreoffice/" as the path. Using /usr/share/java/ or /usr/share/libreoffice/ does not work, as not all jars are in these directories (for /usr/share/libreoffice/ OR under the apprpriate sub-path (program/classes, as the case for /usr/share/java/). Possible solutions: 1) The default path in the automatic or manual connect could pointed to /usr/lib/libreoffice/ 2) Upstream could allow specifying multiple search paths 3) Upstream could hard-code in multiple search locations, such as /usr/share/java/ and drop the hard-coded requirement for the "program/classes/" subfolder, and search these optionally 4) Libreoffice could be more consistent in where .jar files are symlinked/installed. The "ure" package does not use /usr/lib/ for .jar installation. Thanks! [1] https://help.jabref.org/en/OpenOfficeIntegration [2] https://www.onetransistor.eu/2015/04/libreoffice-bibliography-jabref.html -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.4 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-6-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB:en (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init) Versions of packages jabref depends on: ii default-jre [java8-runtime] 2:1.8-58 ii java-wrappers 0.1.28 ii libandroid-json-java 7.0.0+r33-1 ii libantlr3-runtime-java 3.5.2-6 ii libantlr4-runtime-java 4.5.3-1 ii libbcprov-java 1.56-1+deb9u1 ii libcommons-cli-java 1.3.1-3 ii libcommons-lang3-java 3.5-1 ii libcommons-logging-java 1.2-1 ii libglazedlists-java 1.9.1-2 ii libguava-java 19.0-1 ii libhttpasyncclient-java 4.1.2-1 ii libhttpclient-java 4.5.2-2 ii libhttpmime-java 4.5.2-2 ii libjava-string-similarity-java 0.19-1 ii libjempbox-java 1:1.8.12-1 ii libjgoodies-common-java 1.8.1-2 ii libjgoodies-forms-java 1.9.0-3 ii libjgoodies-looks-java 2.7.0-2 ii libjhlabs-filters-java 2.0.235-3 ii libjsoup-java 1.10.2-1 ii liblog4j2-java 2.7-2 ii libmicroba-java 1:0.4.4.3-5 ii libpdfbox-java 1:1.8.12-1 ii libreoffice-java-common 1:6.0.2-1~bpo9+1 ii libspin-java 1.5+dfsg-8 ii libswing-layout-java 1.0.4-4 ii libswingx-java 1:1.6.2-2 ii libunirest-java-java 1.4.8-2 ii openjdk-8-jre [java8-runtime] 8u121-b13-4 Versions of packages jabref recommends: ii libmysql-java 5.1.42-1 ii libpostgresql-jdbc-java 9.4.1212-1 ii libreoffice-writer 1:6.0.2-1~bpo9+1 ii xdg-utils 1.1.1-1 Versions of packages jabref suggests: ii evince [postscript-viewer] 3.22.1-3+deb9u1 ii ghostscript [postscript-viewer] 9.20~dfsg-3.2+deb9u1 ii mupdf [pdf-viewer] 1.9a+ds1-4+deb9u2 ii okular [postscript-viewer] 4:16.08.2-1+b1 -- no debconf information
