Re: amd-64 vs Pure-64

[Stefano Simonucci <stefano.simonucci@tin.it>]

On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 18:09 +0200, Frank wrote:
> > They will both allow setting up a 32bit chroot, which is the recomended
> > way to run openoffice since it isn't 64bit compatible yet.
> 
> Using a chroot is not the only way of running OpenOffice on the Pure64/AMD64 
> port of Debian. Look on this list for a package called "amd64 archive", which 
> provides a few 32bit programs (including OpenOffice) together with their 
> libraries, so you can run them in your 64bit environment. 
> 
> Good luck,
> Frank
> 

I have recompiled OpenOffice 1.9 (=2.0 beta) for my 64bit environment
and it is working.
Bye
    Stefano