On Tuesday 21 March 2006 18.59, David Fellows wrote: > > The amd64 openoffice-bin requires a *32 bit* java to be installed. It does > take "forever" for ooo to decide that it can't find one. > > The 2.0.2 ebuild should install one (app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-java). > Perhaps the location entries in the settings file are pointing somewhere > other than where they should be pointing. Maybe due to copying over > user data from earlier ooo installs. > > In my personal javasettings_Linux_x86.xml file I have > <location>file:///usr/local/java32/jre1.5.0_05</location> > > And I downloaded sun's x86 jre and installed it outside of portage > sometime ago. Cured my problems. > > Dave F
What does OOo use Java for anyway? I've made installations on machines that did not have java with no problem. And I've turned it off on my machine without noticing anything but a faster start... Thierry -- The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be a capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself? Frank Zappa -- [email protected] mailing list
