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Public bug reported:

Hello,

Both Mendeley and Zotero LibreOffice plugins are having problems with LibreOffice 4.4:
Mendeley:
http://support.mendeley.com/customer/portal/questions/11325906-mendeley-plugin-not-working-in-libreoffice-4-4-

Zotero, for example:
https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/46297/
(there is a comment saying "solved" but I think that the person reverted to 4.3 or used upstream)

(I've seen some other plugin with the same error message in LibreOffice
4.4, not sure if it was the PPA one or not)

Disclaimer: I work for Mendeley, but both plugins are very similar
(Mendeley one is a fork from Zotero one in 2008 before i joined and they
use the same technologies and approach: Python-uno for communication and
then LibreOffice Basic to update the plugin).

The problem is that, if using LibreOffice 4.4 from the PPA and doing this:
unopkg add -v Mendeley-1.13.3.oxt
it shows an error such as:
"(com.sun.star.uno.RuntimeException) { { Message = "unknown error!", Context = (com.sun.star.uno.XInterface) @0 } }"

Then it gets incorrectly installed, I just do:
rm -rf .config/libreoffice # to delete the broken installation
soffice  # to re-create .config/libreoffice
unopkg add -v Mendeley-1.13.3.oxt # to try again if you wish

The Mendeley plugin is available here
https://www.dropbox.com/s/83isrvr82p2qsvh/Mendeley-1.13.3.oxt?dl=0
(or download and install Mendeley from http://www.mendeley.com/download-mendeley-desktop/ , then it's available in /opt/mendeleydesktop/share/mendeleydesktop/openOfficePlugin/Mendeley-1.13.3.oxt -we don't support OpenOffice but we still need to change the name of the directory, apologies).
Or attached in this bug report.

Anyway, using LibreOffice 4.4 from libreoffice.org works correctly, but
using the ppa is not working correctly.

We use the Python pyuno technology that maybe is broken there for some
reason?

** Affects: libreoffice (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: ppa

** Attachment added: "Mendeley-1.13.3.oxt"
   https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1419836/+attachment/4315536/+files/Mendeley-1.13.3.oxt

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Title:
  LibreOffice 4.4 (PPA): Extension can't be installed: Message:
  com.sun.star.uno.RuntimeException)  "unknown error!"

Status in libreoffice package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Hello,

  Both Mendeley and Zotero LibreOffice plugins are having problems with LibreOffice 4.4:
  Mendeley:
  http://support.mendeley.com/customer/portal/questions/11325906-mendeley-plugin-not-working-in-libreoffice-4-4-

  Zotero, for example:
  https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/46297/
  (there is a comment saying "solved" but I think that the person reverted to 4.3 or used upstream)

  (I've seen some other plugin with the same error message in
  LibreOffice 4.4, not sure if it was the PPA one or not)

  Disclaimer: I work for Mendeley, but both plugins are very similar
  (Mendeley one is a fork from Zotero one in 2008 before i joined and
  they use the same technologies and approach: Python-uno for
  communication and then LibreOffice Basic to update the plugin).

  The problem is that, if using LibreOffice 4.4 from the PPA and doing this:
  unopkg add -v Mendeley-1.13.3.oxt
  it shows an error such as:
  "(com.sun.star.uno.RuntimeException) { { Message = "unknown error!", Context = (com.sun.star.uno.XInterface) @0 } }"

  Then it gets incorrectly installed, I just do:
  rm -rf .config/libreoffice # to delete the broken installation
  soffice  # to re-create .config/libreoffice
  unopkg add -v Mendeley-1.13.3.oxt # to try again if you wish

  The Mendeley plugin is available here
  https://www.dropbox.com/s/83isrvr82p2qsvh/Mendeley-1.13.3.oxt?dl=0
  (or download and install Mendeley from http://www.mendeley.com/download-mendeley-desktop/ , then it's available in /opt/mendeleydesktop/share/mendeleydesktop/openOfficePlugin/Mendeley-1.13.3.oxt -we don't support OpenOffice but we still need to change the name of the directory, apologies).
  Or attached in this bug report.

  Anyway, using LibreOffice 4.4 from libreoffice.org works correctly,
  but using the ppa is not working correctly.

  We use the Python pyuno technology that maybe is broken there for some
  reason?

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