I have reproduced the installation failure with the writer2latex 0.5-6 package in hardy 8.04, and can confirm that the writer2latex 0.5-6ubuntu0.1 package in hardy-proposed, with the fixed dependencies pulling in tex-common (which provides update-udpmap), successfully completes installation.
However, once writer2latex is installed, I am unable to convert even the most basic of openoffice documents. Running w2l from the command line gives me: $ w2l -latex test_document.odt This is Writer2LaTeX, Version 0.5 (2007-10-15) Starting conversion... Converting test_document.odt String index out of range: 0 java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException: String index out of range: 0 at java.lang.String.charAt(libgcj.so.81) at java.io.File.getParent(libgcj.so.81) at java.io.File.mkdirs(libgcj.so.81) at java.io.File.mkdirs(libgcj.so.81) at writer2latex.Application.convertFile(Application.java:249) at writer2latex.Application.doConversion(Application.java:216) at writer2latex.Application.main(Application.java:112) Attempting to use it as an export filter from openoffice.org also doesn't work; oowriter claims that it's missing a jre and needs openoffice.org-java-common installed. After that gets installed, export to latex still doesn't work and the following is dumped to the terminal: $ Error:java.util.zip.ZipException: /usr/lib/openoffice/program/classes/writer2latex.jar (No such file or directory) Error:java.lang.NullPointerException Making a symlink from /usr/share/writer2latex/writer2latex.jar to /usr/lib/openoffice/program/classes/writer2latex.jar still causes export to fail with the following output to the terminal: $ Error:java.io.FileNotFoundException: No entry for META-INF/converter.xml exists. Error:java.lang.NullPointerException I'm thus not convinced that releasing this updated package will produce something usable for the user. -- writer2latex packages fails to install https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/244098 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
