[ubuntu-in] Error Openoffice.org requires Java runtime environment (JRE) to perform this task. Please install JRE and restart Openoffice.org

[Onkar Shinde]

On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 1:55 PM, Ramnarayan.K <ramnarayan.k at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> am running version OOO.org 3.0.0 on Ubuntu 8.10 (installed from a
> download from the openoffice website). Ubuntu 8.10 ships OOO.org 2.4
> by default.
>
> Mostly things are ok but some time back i had made an impress
> presentation (on an older OOO) with some gimmicky stuff - objects
> flying, bouncing, fuding, video, audio. Now when i try to run the
> presentation i get this error message and the video and audio don't
> run.
>
> The error message is
> "Openoffice.org requires Java runtime environment (JRE) to perform
> this task. Please install JRE and restart Openoffice.org"
>
> So far, with the exception of this error , everything seems to work
> fine in OOO.org 3.0.0, any suggestions as to what i can do,
>
> I found that this might the problem
> (http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=7217396&postcount=5)
> that openoffice.org3-gcj is not installed
>
> The problem is i don't know how to get this file becase the OOO was
> not installed via synaptic
>
> So any ideas how to get this file / and or any other solution

Do you have some sort of JRE package installed?
(sun-java6-jre/openjdk-6-jre). If yes then you can configure the OOo
to use JRE from menu Tools -> Options -> OpenOffice.org -> Java


Onkar