Yes, Netbeans is providing an environment with its own path $PATH = /usr/lib/openoffice/program
which is causing the openoffice addin to fail. I've reported this as a bug to the openoffice addin writers. And I've got my installation working. Now to learn how to program openoffice addins in Java! woo-hoo! Thanks again all. On 27/11/2007, Jim Cheetham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Then it probably deliberately has a restricted or even empty PATH. You > can test that by adding a debug statement like > echo $PATH > /tmp/whatever >