OpenOffice2 for AMD64 Avaliable

projectle · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 30 Jan 2005 Posts: 90

There are now 3 builds of OpenOffice2 for AMD64 that are avaliable on the web.
Here is a link to a mirror containing the RPM files...

I am a bit surprised that OpenOffice.org has not announced that they have any 64-bit builds avaliable, however they are if you take a look under the development section of their mirrors.

ftp://ftp.linux.cz/pub/localization/OpenOffice.org/devel/680/ooo64bit02/Build-3/

This version appears to fix some of the issues that come from using 64-bit Java on a 64-bit system with 32-bit OpenOffice, as well as appears to start at comparable speed to if you are running a completely native 32-bit system.

jsrlepage · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 28 Sep 2003 Posts: 98

annoying bug : filetypes

one has to manually select the filetype in which he wants to save a file.
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projectle · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 30 Jan 2005 Posts: 90

Uh...
Why is it a problem that one needs to select the filetype that you want to save a document as?

Additionally, you can set it to a default file format for each type.

jsrlepage · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 28 Sep 2003 Posts: 98

well, it's more that i can't choose a default file type. aside from old crappeh ones, of course.
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RaZoR1394 · Guru Joined: 09 Jan 2005 Posts: 356

I don't know if they've put the amd64 build in the portage tree because the 5-10min loading time disappeared. Now it loads instantly. I did an emerge -uDav world which updated Openoffice to the .109 build. and I also noticed that blackdown jre+jdk got updated. It's also generally faster when opening documents etc.