Re: Open office
On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 11:58:20AM -0900, Greg Madden wrote:
> To sum up, there won't be a 64 bit OOo.org any time soon. 32 bit chroots are
> beyond what a user can be expected to setup. The AMD64 cpu can run 32 & 64
> bit apps at the same time, all is needed are the correct libraries installed
> for the 32 bit apps. This last point is what Ubuntu and others have used to
> run OpenOffice on 64 bit. Does Debian amd64 have such a plan for running
> OpenOffice ?
You can use Goswin's unofficial amd64-archive package to get this working.
It builds amd64 debs of enough library and binary packages to get it
running, though it's running 32-bit behind the scenes. Very nice.
Hamish
--
Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <hamish@debian.org> <hamish@cloud.net.au>
Reply to: