Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 17:47:21 +0200 From: Vladimir Dvorak <dvorakv@vdsoft.org> To: Mark Kane <mark@mkproductions.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OpenOffice+AMD64 Message-ID: <430B4509.9020706@vdsoft.org> In-Reply-To: <430B4EF8.4080806@mkproductions.org> References: <430AFED7.2030603@vdsoft.org> <430B4EF8.4080806@mkproductions.org>
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Mark Kane wrote: > Vladimir Dvorak wrote: > >> does anybody know what is the status of OpenOffice for AMD64 >> architecture ? Is possible to install OO in some chroot lib32 >> environment ? Or this cause is wasting the time for now ? > > > Hi. I am not sure the status of it for AMD64, but I do know it > requires Java. Unfortunately there is no Java for AMD64 yet. > > I found this link, but I didn't think Linux binary compatibility was > possible in the amd64 version. Every time I try to install a port that > requires Java such as Azureus on my FreeBSD/amd64 machine, it says > something like "Only for i386, and you are running amd64". > > http://people.freebsd.org/~tjr/linux32.html > > For an alternative, look at AbiWord for word processing and Gnumeric > for spreadsheets. I'm sure there are others as well. > > -Mark > Thank you Mark. OOfice are possible to build without JAVA support (make -DWITHOUT_JAVA). I use Abiword and Gnumeric instead of OO now, but there is no connectivity with OO sxw files - which I have a lot (from times when I used i386/Linux). Thank you for that link I will look at it. Vladimir
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