Does anyone know when Openoffice 3 will be available in Ubuntu Repositories?

[NoOp]

On 10/07/2008 12:23 PM, James Tappin wrote:
> On Fri, 03 Oct 2008 08:15:20 -0700
> NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> 
> N> On 10/03/2008 07:08 AM, James Tappin wrote:
> N> > On Thu, 2 Oct 2008 20:15:09 -0400
> N> > "John Toliver" <john.toliver at gmail.com> wrote:
> N> > 
> N> > JT> Based on what you said though, I may go ahead and upgrade to
> N> > JT> the RC3.0 and be done with it.
> N> > 
> N> > Sadly, it appears that impress still has no effective means of
> N> > imbedding movies (JMF is a right pain to install and doesn't work).
> N> > 
> N> 
> N> JMF does indeed work. Perhaps you simply haven't installed it
> N> properly and set up your class paths.
> 
> Turns out JMF needs java 6 to work properly, and I had java 5 installed
> -- still no go with OOo yet though, and the set of codecs looks to be
> very limited (e.g. no DiVX).
> 
> 
> 
> 

Once you've installed JMF, then on OOo:
Tools|Options|Open...|Java|ClassPath|Add Archive
Paths should be:

/opt/JMF-2.1.1e/lib/jmf.jar
/opt/JMF-2.1.1e/lib/mp3plugin.jar

I als have mediaplayer.jar and multiplayer.jar.
Also note that the mp3plugin.jar is a separate download/install.