OS X, LibreOffice 4.4 and 5.0: no suitable office installation

[pquentin]

As mentioned in #211, unoconv does not detect a suitable office installation on OS X (Yosemite) and LibreOffice 4.4 and 5.0. LibreOffice 4.3 works fine. When fixing manually the path searching to ensure that everything is found, the error becomes ImportError: No module named 'com' (or 'com.sun.star.document.UpdateDocMode.QUIET_UPDATE' is unknown). Amusingly, this is the only import that breaks, but other things break anyway if we leave this out.

I think this is a bug in find_offices and office_environ only, because using the python binary from LibreOffice 4.4 and 5.0, this code works fine:

import uno
import unohelper

from com.sun.star.beans import PropertyValue
from com.sun.star.connection import NoConnectException
from com.sun.star.document.UpdateDocMode import QUIET_UPDATE
from com.sun.star.lang import DisposedException, IllegalArgumentException
from com.sun.star.io import IOException, XOutputStream
from com.sun.star.script import CannotConvertException
from com.sun.star.uno import Exception as UnoException
from com.sun.star.uno import RuntimeException

Since #211 is closed, I'll use this issue to document my progress, if any.

[shilpi230]

@dagwieers i tried on El captain with 4.4.6 it didn't work but as soon as i shifted to 4.3.5 it works :)

[pquentin]

@shilpi230 I did not continue to investigate as it was fixed in #276. But no merge yet.

[dvandersluis]

Did anyone make any progress on this? With LO 5.1 it still doesn't work (but when I try it using the python binary it works, as per @pquentin).

[pquentin]

@dvandersluis What verison are you using? 0.7, or the master branch?

[dvandersluis]

I'm using master (prior to which I was getting the error about no suitable install found).

[SainteCelery]

I find this problem is ongoing. What is the workaround?

[brianedelman]

+1