[gentoo-amd64] Re: JRE - how to install one?

[Duncan]

Peter Humphrey <prh@××××××××××.uk> posted
200609031521.17514.prh@××××××××××.uk, excerpted below, on  Sun, 03 Sep
2006 15:21:17 +0000:

> I'm trying to create a database in Open Office, which of course on
> ~amd64 is the binary version. When I tell it to create a new database it
> tells me it can't find a JRE, and please to restart OOo after installing
> one. So I go to http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/java.xml and follow the
> instructions to install virtual/jre. [snip]

> !!! Error:
> Expected "/usr/share/java-config-2/nsplugin/sun-jdk-1.5-javaplugin.so"
> to exist, but it doesn't.
> !!! Error: Perhaps "sun-jdk-1.5" isn't a valid name of VM built with
> nsplugin?
> --
>
> Creating /usr/share/java-config-2/nsplugin/ manually doesn't help
> either.
>
> What am I doing wrong?

nsplugin refers to the mozilla/netscape browser plugin, and you aren't
using it for that so it shouldn't matter.

I don't use OO.o as I don't need it, and don't have a Java installed as
none of the options Gentoo provides for that are freedomware and I don't
need it enough to bother researching it further.  However, from what I've
read about it, you've done everything right in general but for one thing
related specifically to OO.o on amd64.

Because the OO.o build is 32-bit binary, it apparently looks for a 32-bit
Java version, and doesn't see the 64-bit version.  I've seen the solution
posted here in the past but don't recall exactly what it was.  I'm
guessing it either involved a symlink placed appropriately so OO.o could
find and use the 64-bit version, or installation of a 32-bit version.

Hopefully someone will reply with more details, but that'll head
you in the right direction anyway, I believe.

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