I had the same problem, http://bugs.debian.org/269497, but was able to get around it by following the instructions in /usr/share/doc/ia32-libs/README.Debian.
Ryan On Sun, 2004-10-17 at 20:14 -0400, Christopher Browne wrote: > On Sun, 17 Oct 2004 19:25:53 +0200, Michael Bienia > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 2004-10-16 22:04:16 -0400, Christopher Browne wrote: > > > None of this seems to result in installing openoffice.org... > > > > > > Is there some extra site to point to in /etc/apt/sources.list? > > > > Yes, you need the openoffice.org repository on debian-amd64.a.d.o to get > > the mentioned packages. Add the following line to your sources.list: > > > > deb http://debian-amd64.alioth.debian.org/openoffice.org/ ./ > > That gets it installed, but it doesn't work yet. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> ooffice > Sunday 20:05:31 > OpenOffice.org for Debian - see /usr/share/doc/openoffice.org/README.Debian.gz > running openoffice.org setup... > /usr/lib/openoffice/program/setup.bin: error while loading shared > libraries: libz.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or > directory > setup failed (code 0).. abort > ---- Please read /usr/share/doc/openoffice.org/README.Debian.gz for > known problems ----- > > Nothing relevant seems to appear in the README.Debian file. When I > run ldd on the setup program, I get an interesting set of missing > libs... > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> ldd /usr/lib/openoffice/program/setup.bin > Sunday 20:05:16 > linux-gate.so.1 => (0x00000000) > libsb645li.so => not found > libsvt645li.so => not found > libvcl645li.so => not found > ... and numerous others ... > > Adding /usr/lib/openoffice/program to /etc/ld.so.conf fixes lots of > this, but still leaves it unable to find libz.so.1, which I know is > available is /usr/lib/libz.so.1.2.2... > -- > http://www3.sympatico.ca/cbbrowne/linux.html > "The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him > absolutely no good." -- Samuel Johnson, lexicographer (1709-1784) > >

