> Could you send all the details of what you did to get running?
Well, first of all, since the chroot I had installed was sid-ia32, I thought maybe it's because... well... it's sid, you know. So last night I wiped it out and debootstrapped sarge over it. I have not had time to check if openoffice works yet, because it's been downloading all night. This morning I checked and it seemed to have downloaded everything OK and was already configuring things. I did not have time to go through it cos I gotta work too, you know. But the correct sequence to debootstrap sarge I think is along the lines of run debootstrap command after it's done setting up the base system create /etc/apt/sources.list (which does not exist at first, you create it) and put in the relevant lines, depending if you're installing sarge or sid, or stable. apt-get install locales This will get rid of the annoying messages about locale being undefined or uninstalled and whatnot. Then you run base-config, which does the rest. You go through the package configuration and whatnot... Then you follow instructions in the howto, mounting the 64bit /home, proc and /tmp filesystems in the chroot, and linking the libraries, and stuff. The first time I did it I did not install locales before doing anything else. (I did create an /etc/environment file, by hand, which did not change much since the actual locales were not installed) I went through the whole install, mounting filesystems, installing X and kde, and openoffice, etc, and THEN, did apt-get install locales. It is true however that last time I neglected to link the 32bit libraries in the 64 bit system, but I did not think that was important as far as running programs INSIDE the chroot is concerned. I'll report tonight if this time things are working better or what... Alex.
