Re: amd64-archive update + Wine
Thanks, I'll do an update and try out wine.
Bill
On 2/21/06, Matthieu Helleboid <mhelleboid@free.fr> wrote:
> Hello
>
> Le Lundi 20 Février 2006 21:10, Ozzy Lash a écrit :
> > I was about to set up a chroot environment to run 32 bit applications,
> > when I came across Matthieu's amd64-archive announcement. Thanks to
> > Matthieu, I now have a flash enabled browser and openoffice, with
> > almost no pain.
>
> And thanks for the initial work to Goswin !
>
> >
> > I do have a couple of questions:
> >
> > 1. I am running unstable, and Matthieu's packages seem to be for
> > stable. Is there a similar package for unstable? The biggest
> > difference would be a newer version of Openoffice.
>
> Several versions for stable, testing and unstable is possible, but need a lot
> of work, because of different version of programs, dependencies and of course
> libc6.
> So I used the backports.org alternative, and I should be possible to make it
> work with it, but probably difficult (gij, gcj, jikes, kaffe, java, etc)
> But I hope that openoffice.org2 will compile soon on amd64 !
>
> >
> > 2. There is one program that I use that I need to run under wine.
> > Could wine be added to
> > these packages?
>
> I added wine in 0.6, I only made a little test and it's working for me.
> you can make an update from my online repository.
>
> >
> > Once again thanks for doing this, and for having easy to follow
> > instructions Matthieu.
>
> thanks for testing and reporting success.
>
> >
> > Bill
>
> Matthieu
>
>
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