The help system in OpenOffice.org 2.0 will not work if it was not compiled with java support, so you will receive the following message when opening the help:
The help file for this topic is not installed.
Recompile openoffice with the java USE flag. To do this, either add it to /etc/portage/package.use to apply the flag to openoffice only:
app-office/openoffice java
At the time of writing, with the use flags set for my system, the following packages will be installed.
localhost steph # emerge -av openoffice
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild N ] dev-java/java-config-1.2.11-r1 15 kB
[ebuild N ] dev-java/blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.03-r2 USE="X alsa -browserplugin - doc -mozilla -nsplugin" 33,570 kB
[ebuild N ] virtual/jdk-1.4.2 0 kB
[ebuild N ] dev-java/ant-core-1.6.2-r5 USE="-doc -source" 6,134 kB
[ebuild N ] virtual/jre-1.4.2 0 kB
[ebuild R ] app-office/openoffice-2.0.3 USE="eds firefox gtk java* pam xml -binfilter -cairo -debug -gnome
-kde -ldap -mono -odk" LINGUAS="-af -ar -be_BY -bg -bn -bs -ca -cs -cy -da -de -el -en -en_GB -en_US -en_ZA -es
-et -fa -fi -fr -gu_IN -he -hi_IN -hr -hu -it -ja -km -ko -lt -mk -nb -nl -nn -nr -ns -pa_IN -pl -pt -pt_BR -ru
-rw -sh_YU -sk -sl -sr_CS -st -sv -sw_TZ -th -tn -tr -ts -vi -xh -zh_CN -zh_TW -zu" 0 kB
Total size of downloads: 39,720 kB
Would you like to merge these packages? [Yes/No]
Once java is installed you can add the java flag to the USE variable in /etc/make.conf so that all new packages will use it (and all existing packages will use it when they're rebuilt, provided you use emerge's --newuse flag of course).
