Re: Howto install Openoffice.org on Debian amd64 pure64

[David Liontooth <liontooth@cogweb.net>]

Narciso Cerro wrote:

> On Sat, 23 Oct 2004 15:42:39 -0700, David Liontooth
> <liontooth@cogweb.net> wrote:
>  
>
> > Summarizing past instructions -- this works as of today:
> >
> > 1. apt-get install ia32-libs-openoffice.org
> > 2. apt-get install libstlport4.6
> > 3. echo "deb http://debian-amd64.alioth.debian.org/openoffice.org ./" >>
> > /etc/apt/sources.list
> > 4. apt-get install openoffice.org-debian-files=1.1.2-2+1.0.1
> > 5. download zlib1g_1.2.2-1_i386.deb from a Debian mirror
> > 6. dpkg -X zlib1g_1.2.2-1_i386.deb /emul/ia32-linux
> > 7. ldconfig
> >
> > If additional libraries are needed, repeat 5-6-7 for each.
> >    
>
> I did all your steps but i'm stuck on this error message:
>
> OpenOffice.org for Debian - see /usr/share/doc/openoffice.org/README.Debian.gz
> running openoffice.org setup...
> /usr/lib/openoffice/program/setup.bin: error while loading shared
> libraries: libz.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
> directory
> setup failed (code 0).. abort
> ---- Please read /usr/share/doc/openoffice.org/README.Debian.gz for
> known problems -----
>
> I got installed that library on  /usr/lib/libz.so.1
>
> I read the Readme file but i didn't find any clue.
>
> Cheers.
> Narciso
>
>
>  
Hi Narciso,

You're getting this message because Openoffice isn't finding the 32-bit 
emulation library version of zlib1g. The zlib1g you have installed in 
/usr/lib doesn't help -- you need one in /emul/ia32-linux/lib.

From this error message, it looks like you didn't follow steps 5-6-7. 
Did you download zlib1g_1.2.2-1_i386.deb from a Debian mirror? -- for 
instance from 
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/z/zlib/zlib1g_1.2.2-1_i386.deb

This is the tricky part of the installation -- once you get it, it works 
fine. Just install as in #6 above and run ldconfig.

Cheers,
Dave