adding extensions is not working

[Jimmie James]

> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to add dictionaries to openoffice which are extensions as well
> in OpenOffice 3. Unfortunally - on adding a dictionary I'm getting an
> error:
>
> "Bad tranfer URL" (yes, the s is missing). This happens with all
> dictionaries I've tried to add.
>
> I found a thread on oooforum where the same problem is described. I tried
> to work with unopkg to add it on cmdline but still no success:
>
> http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?p=326347#326347
>
> Without a working dictionary, grammar checking is not working :(
>
> How can I work around the problem?
>
> PS: keep me CCed please, I'm not subscribed.
>

I was having the same problem with it, the recent update has fixed it 
for me,
openoffice.org-3.1.0

Makefile: # $FreeBSD: ports/editors/openoffice.org-3/Makefile,v 1.316 
2009/05/16 06:23:58 maho Exp $

I was able to download and install a dictionary package without any 
issue after this update.

You might try updating to 3.1.0, and if you're still having problems, 
try this patch, 
http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=48665+0+archive/2009/freebsd-openoffice/20090503.freebsd-openoffice

(apply from /usr/ports)


HTH.
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