Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Thierry de Coulon <tcoulon@××××××××.ch>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] openoffice-bin-2.0.2 hang for regular users
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 21:15:12
Message-Id: 200603212211.14661.tcoulon@decoulon.ch
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] openoffice-bin-2.0.2 hang for regular users by David Fellows
1 On Tuesday 21 March 2006 18.59, David Fellows wrote:
2 >
3 > The amd64 openoffice-bin requires a *32 bit* java to be installed. It does
4 > take "forever" for ooo to decide that it can't find one.
5 >
6 > The 2.0.2 ebuild should install one (app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-java).
7 > Perhaps the location entries in the settings file are pointing somewhere
8 > other than where they should be pointing. Maybe due to copying over
9 > user data from earlier ooo installs.
10 >
11 > In my personal javasettings_Linux_x86.xml file I have
12 > <location>file:///usr/local/java32/jre1.5.0_05</location>
13 >
14 > And I downloaded sun's x86 jre and installed it outside of portage
15 > sometime ago. Cured my problems.
16 >
17 > Dave F
18
19 What does OOo use Java for anyway? I've made installations on machines that
20 did not have java with no problem. And I've turned it off on my machine
21 without noticing anything but a faster start...
22
23 Thierry
24
25 --
26 The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be a
27 capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the
28 safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?
29 Frank Zappa
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Re: [gentoo-amd64] openoffice-bin-2.0.2 hang for regular users Sebastian Redl <sebastian.redl@×××××××××××.at>