Extensions

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#1

Hello Mates,

i've just changed to Libre Office. And now i've some Questions.

1.) I have the Extensions Manager. And it shows like the Extensions in
the List are already installed. But they have a padlock after the
Description. Means this that i must prepare before using the Extensions.

2.) How can i use the PDF Importer?

Have a nice day @ all

#2

The pad lock just shows that the extensions are installed for all user and can not be removed by the user, requires system admin.

Right click and select open with Draw. The PDF Import only allows limited editing of PDF files. If you need full access for editing PDFs find an open source editor for your operating system and install it (Google is your friend here).

HTH

#3

Andy Brown wrote:

Hello Mates,

i've just changed to Libre Office. And now i've some Questions.

1.) I have the Extensions Manager. And it shows like the Extensions in
the List are already installed. But they have a padlock after the
Description. Means this that i must prepare before using the Extensions.

2.) How can i use the PDF Importer?

Have a nice day @ all

The pad lock just shows that the extensions are installed for all user
and can not be removed by the user, requires system admin.

I'm running on a Mac, OSX 10.6.6 and v.3.3.0. As far as I know I _am_ the
system admin, but I can't open the padlock. How does one do that? I want
to get rid of the French and Spanish dictionaries. (Nothing against the
French and Spanish, but I have a bunch of other languages).

TIA

//James

#4

Hi James,

To delete these extension, you need to be root/admin, and delete them
manually through the filesystem...

For example, in Windows XP, the path is:

C:\Program Files\LibreOffice 3\share\extensions

Be careful that you only delete the ones that you don't want/need...

#5

Doesn't look like a feasible approach on the Mac, Charles. The file names don't give much of a clue to what is what. But thanks anyway.

//James

#6

No worries James, hopefully somewhere on here will chime in with
where/how to do this on a Mac...

If not, ping me in a few days and I'll install LibreOffice on my Moms
Mac and figure out where they are and how to remove them... you might
have to resort to the console to do it though...

#7

Charles,
If you are logging as the ID you installed MAC OSX on, you are the administrator.
Glenn

#8

Glenn... you left my quote attribution, but trimmed out my reply...
which, if you had read, you'd have noted that I was not the one with a
Mac, I was trying to help James, who has the Mac.

Also, your reply was not helpful...

While Mac users are admins, they will still get prompted for the Admin
password when doing things requiring admin permissions...

That said, I'm not sure how this works when using the console, as I
don't use a Mac on a daily basis, I just help my Mom when she has
problems (she's been using them forever)...

What we need is someone with a Mac who knows how to do this to chime in...

#9

1) Make sure that LibreOffice isn't running anywhere, if necessary
remove it from the dock.

2) In a terminal, type in :

sudo /Applications/LibreOffice.app/Contents/MacOS/unopkg list --bundled

will give you the list of the bundled extensions.

3) sudo /Applications/LibreOffice.app/Contents/MacOS/unopkg remove
<extension>

where <extension> is the name of the extension as provided in the list
of extensions at the respective lines which start with e.g. :

URL: vnd.sun.star.expand:$BUNDLED_EXTENSIONS/report-builder

4) So, in the above example, to remove the report builder extension, you
would type :

sudo /Applications/LibreOffice.app/Contents/MacOS/unopkg remove
report-builder

Alex

#10

The extension with padlocks are installed with LibreOffice by default, whether you want them or not. You can't disable or delete them from the Extension Manage. Bad design choice in my opinion,

To delete them you need to delete them in the program files. To do so:
In Finder go to Applications/LibreOffice.app
Right click on LibreOffice.app and then click on "Show Package Contents"
Navigate to Contents/Share/Extensions
Delete the Extensions you do not want

Note: full path - /Applications/LibreOffice.app/Contents/Share/Extensions

Larry

#11

Thanks, Alexander, but it appears that the french and spanish dictionaries are not uno packages. They're in the extensions folder, not the uno_packages folder, and I get the following error message when trying to remove them:

James-Wildes-Mac-mini:~ james$ sudo /Applications/Additions/LibreOffice.app/Contents/MacOS/unopkg remove dict-es
ERROR: There is no such extension deployed: dict-es

unopkg failed.

This is the entry for the spanish dictionary:

Identifier: org.openoffice.es.hunspell.dictionaries
  Version: 2008.07.01
  URL: vnd.sun.star.expand:$BUNDLED_EXTENSIONS/dict-es
  is registered: yes
  Media-Type: application/vnd.sun.star.package-bundle
  Description:
  bundled Packages: {
      URL: vnd.sun.star.expand:$BUNDLED_EXTENSIONS/dict-es/dictionaries.xcu
      is registered: yes
      Media-Type: application/vnd.sun.star.configuration-data
      Description:

  }

I can't use the alternative, dictionaries.xcu since that is also the package name for the french, the swedish and the UK english ones.

//James

#12

Thanks, Larry. That seems to have worked. The startup of LibO was unusually long. I'll see if it is as long next time.

//J

#13

Hi James,

Thanks, Alexander, but it appears that the french and spanish dictionaries are not uno packages. They're in the extensions folder, not the uno_packages folder, and I get the following error message when trying to remove them:

James-Wildes-Mac-mini:~ james$ sudo /Applications/Additions/LibreOffice.app/Contents/MacOS/unopkg remove dict-es
ERROR: There is no such extension deployed: dict-es

unopkg failed.

This is the entry for the spanish dictionary:

Yes, I've just tried and found the same thing. I'm not sure why, but I
suspect they are not registered as components in the same way as the
other extensions are, and thus can not be removed via unopkg.

As Larry has pointed out, you can also adopt the brute force approacha
and actually physically delete the directories in which the extensions
are installed, and then restart LibreOffice.

Alex

#14

Thanks Alex. Yes, I tried the brute force approach, and it did start up slower the first time, as I commented elsewhere, but normally thereafter. So I'm happy. And thanks to Larry also for suggesting that method.

//James