Re: xmerge fc3?

Hi Joerg,
Thanks for the help.  It clears up my understanding of what's going on, 
though it leaves me rather unsure about where to head; something for me 
to think on.
Thanks again.
Regards,
Morgan.

Joerg Barfurth wrote:
> Hi Morgan,
> 
> Morgan Read wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> If I'm in the wrong place I'm happy to be pointed to another forum.
>>
>> Trying to install "Mobile Device Support Pack" as per
>> <http://xml.openoffice.org/xmerge/downloads/index.html> on fc3
>>
>> Installed jre 1.5
>>
>> Issues:
>> 1 Probably need to "register" jre for OOo somehow?
>>
> 
> Which version of OOo is that?
> 
> IIRC on 1.1.x there is a program called jvmsetup for this (in the OOo 
> program directory). Warning: I'm not sure how well 1.1.x (or for that 
> matter XMerge) get along with JRE 1.5.
> 
>> 2 Error on install:
>> # java -jar XMergeInstall.jar
>> Cannot find sversion.ini/.sversionrc
>> -
>> In addition I get a popup window: "Could not locate the OpenOffice
>> settings file.  Are you sure StarOffice is installed on your system?"
>>
> 
> If you are using the version of OOo that came as part of FC3, please try 
> the support for that distro. AFAIK they ship a modified version of OOo, 
> which provides better integration with their distro, but may break 
> things in standard OOo, which add-ons rely on.
> 
> Some distros even ship OOo with all Java support removed. In that case 
> you need to download and install the version we offer on our mirror 
> network in order to use XMerge.
> 
> 
> HTH, Joerg
>