[quick howto] openoffice 2.0beta on amd64

Jacobs · Posted: Sat Jun 04, 2005 1:23 pm Post subject:

Thanks, that did the trick. Now without Java, OO2 is superfast

Neat.

apache2 · n00b Joined: 06 Jun 2005 Posts: 12

help me out here guys:

ryan@Rambo ryan $ soffice
/opt/openoffice.org1.9.79/program/javaldx: error while loading shared libraries: libz.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
/opt/openoffice.org1.9.79/program/soffice.bin: error while loading shared libraries: libXext.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

when running the soffice bin

babo · Guru Joined: 10 Aug 2004 Posts: 477 Location: Ljubljana

what emul libs do you have installed?

SAngeli · l33t Joined: 16 Apr 2004 Posts: 904 Location: Italy

Hi Guys,

I need some help, if possible with OOo 2.0 beta on my adm64. I hear good things about this package but the last time I instaleld it was too slow to start.
I now see the trick to make it load fast "java".

I need assistance with the followings:
1. How to determin if I currently have 32bit sun jre installed?
2. What steps Should i follow to complete an install?
a. unmask ooo
b. emerge it
c. ?

PS: I hope I do not have to go back, again, to ooo 1.1.4

thanks,
Spiro

RaZoR1394 · Guru Joined: 09 Jan 2005 Posts: 356

XhwMikey

SAngeli,

There is a utility called java-config which allows you to select amongst various java environments as well as to see which one is the current (selected) environment. Do a man on this to double check me, but I believe the command is:

java-config -v

Also, I think you can just download and install the 32 bit sun java from the sun site...then use java-config to select the desired environment. But I suspect difficulties will ensue when 64bit processes call into a 32bit java environment. I could (hope!) I'm wrong there, as it looks like I'm going to have to do something like that (see below). Hope this helps.

All,
But wait...there's more! I just did an update world, which upgdaded my openoffice. Now it wont start at all - complaining about the inability to locate a java environment. Prior to this it would launch (it took a long time at first), and I could uncheck the "use java" preference. I can no longer do this...it won't launch! Any ideas? Is there anything like a "--nojava" switch to the soffice invocation?

Bottom line is if an # emerge -Dup shows an update to your OpenOffice (beta) JUST SAY NO for now..

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SAngeli · l33t Joined: 16 Apr 2004 Posts: 904 Location: Italy

thanks you guys,

here is the output of my java:

pgolik

Mythos · l33t Joined: 02 May 2004 Posts: 953 Location: Portugal

sorry any one used ooodi sucessfuly in Open Office 2 ???
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XhwMikey · Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2005 2:33 am Post subject:

All,
Well I searched the Open Office forums for help on this java thing. No help there. In fact, they are in MAJOR DENIAL that the 64 bit world lives now nor that it is a big part of the future - kept seeing someone ask what would be the use for a 64 bit port of OOo(???!). Grrrrrr. Good grief, even M$ acknowleges that 64 bits are on the radar. Saw something about 64bit port for version 2.1!!! whenever that happens. Suppose I gotta drop back to 109. Swell. Not sure how to have 32bit JRE co-exist with 64bit system (64bit Firefox). How does Star Office handle 64 bit Solaris installations I wonder...

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Birtz · Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2005 3:01 am Post subject:

I am using this simple hack to workaround the java problems with OpenOffice 2.0beta;

My main java-jdk and jre are blackdown and are ofcourse 64-bit, and I have installed sun-jre 32-bit:

crazycat · Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2005 3:22 am Post subject:

Actually 64bit means as much as nothing to a word processor and i can understand that noone really wants to spend man power(most of whom are sun employees) and limited resources on the needless rewrite. OO is a huge piece of code which took almost 12 hours and 2 gb of hard drive space to compile on my old athlon. Even m$ is not that dumb to rewrite everything 64bit so if you actually tried the trial of win x64 you would know that, the situation there is THE SAME as in linux. They got their 32bit flash and their 32bit codecs. You want speed for encoding - use 64 bit xvid. You want compatibility and that everything works - use 32bit internet explorer or whatever browser you prefer , like in linux. Please clean your ears of marketing speech and run some tests for yourself. I think the problem with jre is gentoo problem which could have been a usefull depenadncy for opera or 32bit mozilla. But i think things will settle sooner or later cause doing things "the right way" costs always lots of time and in the short term ease of use and demands of it's users some patience and help. But the efforts are generally repyed in the long term by better functionality. There are lot of improvements by using 64bit code and I posted some benchmarks in the faq thread. But things like a web browser, or a word processor ... the benefits are just not worth it. Things will change, but not anytime soon.

crazycat · Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2005 3:27 am Post subject:

ABI="x86" emerge sun-jdk / sun-jre-bin would emerge 64bit jre/jdk on my box.
Maybe because i haven't tried the 'echo "dev-java/sun-jre-bin x86" >>/etc/portage/package.keywords' trick. I had to modify jdk ebuild to get 32bit java and to make it fit nicely :
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-351223-highlight-opera+java.html

Birtz · Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2005 3:38 am Post subject:

Crazycat, this works like a charm, you have to agree that it is far more simple than you have suggested in the quoted thread

And yes, package.keywords is very important because it is preffered ACCEPT_KEYWORDS for packages, that way portage uses "x86" path. For ABI="x86" I am not pretty sure, because sun-jre-bin is a binary package and nothing get's compiled here, but I left it hanging there because of the sanity (changing ABI like this puts ABI's environment in place for emerge e.g. ABI="x86" would pass --libdir=/usr/lib32 to ./configure via econf and use 32-bit compiles).

Anyways, once you install it like this, you can point your opera to it also (I did it myself).

Best regards

Edit
And as a side note, I do agree with your remarks regarding 32-bit/64-bit necessity or usability. For the most part, I think people are just trying to be more 31337 having all 64-bit, but I am comfortable that I can have 95% of my system 64-bit and *ability* to run the rest 32-bit (that's the melding point for me

). Not to mention that there are no "emulation" speeches here but like in first days of 32-bit world (16/32-bit transition), we are talking about 32/64-bit transition.
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Joffer · Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2005 11:14 am Post subject:

Birtz - I was not able to use your way to install sun-jre-bin-1.5.0.04 as 32 bit, at least not cleanly. It would not include the plugin and javaws folders

I have in my /etc/package.keywords:

crazycat · Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2005 1:43 pm Post subject:

I've tried to use your method , Birtz but it keeps installing 64bit jdk and jre. Probably because amd64 version is unmasked somewhere in my configuratuion. Anyway if it really works on your system out of the box, it is a better way than to edit the ebuild manually.

Birtz · Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2005 2:35 pm Post subject:

Joffer · Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2005 7:49 pm Post subject:

Joffer · Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2005 1:27 pm Post subject:

I ended ut making myself a sun-jre-bin_x86-1.5.0.04.ebuild for ~amd64. Now I have java in opera and firefox-bin

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XhwMikey · Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2005 10:46 pm Post subject:

Joffer,

Any chance you could post your 1.5.0 ~amd64 ebuild or at least a few hints? I have not ventured into the world of creating ebuilds, but I'm willing to give it a go - gotta learn sometime I guess.

XhwMikey

CrazyCat,
At no time did I suggest that I needed 64 bits for a word processor. I purchased an amd64 platform because I felt that the 64bit platform offered me the best growth path for the future without having to buy new PC components in the next few years - so that is what I have. Beyond that I do not feel compelled to justify my use of a 64bit platform (marketing hype notwithstanding). I was not "whining" because Ooo isn't 64bit (I've been living with that as well as the browser plugin issue from the start). In fact, I could'nt care less if they take until 2010 to port it to 64bit. I just want to continue using Ooo (and advocating it use BTW) on my 64 bit system. However, I was expressing frustration with the dismissive comments when 64 bit "customers" wrote in to the Ooo forum asking about full 64 bit functionality. I was also frustrated because I could not find a workaround to my current situation - namely the new version of Ooo won't even start without a 32bit JRE, and barring some kind of a workaround, a 64bit port looked like the only answer . I have no intention of trying to be 3l33t or anything else - I'll probably be a n00b forever and that's fine. I'm just trying to do my best to solve my own problems (by searching web forums) and learn something in the process. IMHO, arguing that Ooo should not be ported to 64bit platforms (or relegated to the bottom priority) because the power of a 64bit processor is not needed - is specious at best. If that were the case, we should fire up our IBM PC-XT 8086 boxes to surf the web and do word processing because who needs more than 16 bits to do that? Certainly not a scenario I would want. Granted the Ooo folks have a big job to do and I offer my respect for the job done already, but blowing off the 64 bit "customers" who are asking about the best way to coexist with 32 bit Ooo binaries is not a good thing. End of SoapBox.
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klockren · Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2005 8:10 am Post subject:

I have a 32 bit Java installed in /usr/java32/jre1.5.0_04/ . How do I link OO2beta to this? Is there a symlink or config file to edit? I can't do any changes inside the program, as I can't even fire it up!

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jkomar · Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2005 2:31 pm Post subject:

jkomar · Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2005 3:35 pm Post subject:

correction: opengl-update xorg-x11 worked but caused other issues. I had to do it each time I restarted and my nvidia-glx didn't want to load properly afterward.

I will try the glibc ~amd64 and see if that works.

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jkomar · Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2005 6:01 pm Post subject:

I tried the glibc-2.3.5-r1.ebuild and I am still getting: