ZipException when installing an extension

[fleeym]

Hey everyone, I’ve started having a weird issue when trying to install extensions for LibreOffice. The extension in question is TexMaths. I just grabbed the latest version, opened the Extension Manager, clicked “Add…”, selected the .oxt file, and received the following error:

I’ve tried a few things to hopefully fix it, but none of these worked:

• Downloading the file from another browser (Firefox and Chromium)
• Unzipping the extension and rezipping (in the hopes that the zip was somehow corrupted after downloading it 5 times)
• Tried different older versions of the extension
• Restarting (you never know)

My environment is Fedora Linux 40 (KDE), with LibreOffice installed as a Flatpak (I also tried installing it as an RPM, no success)

I’ve also searched around the internet for this specific error and found nothing.

[elmau]

Please share the extension to try.

[mikekaganski]

Guess you use v.24.2.5? This exception is added there, for bad ZIP files. But that extension package is not bad, it really uses case-sensitive files.

[fleeym]

This is the extension I’m trying to install: https://extensions.libreoffice.org/assets/downloads/1236/1719745012/TexMaths-0.52.1.oxt

[fleeym]

Also yeah, seems I’m running 24.2.5

[Ash733]

Someone else has reported this as a bug also: TexMaths / Bugs / #188 Failed to install TexMaths 0.52.1

[mikekaganski]

https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/170616 fixed that.

Note though, that even if the case difference is allowed for ZIP, and possible on Linux, still the extension is not Linux-only; and thus, having filenames in it, differing only with case, would make it behave strangely on Windows; thus, it is useful for the extension author to consider that, and re-structure it, to only use filenames differing not only in case.

[mst]

should be fixed with https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/170623

[fleeym]

Thanks for fixing the issue! Do you happen to know when a version containing the fix will be out?