On Sat, 27 Jan 2007 02:16:39 -0800 (PST) TerryJ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dijo:
> Against my better judgment, I tried an amd64 OS version about 6 months ago. > I could not launch the firefox installed by the OS installer and had to > re-emerge it (it was a Gentoo-based distro and a good one). I tried in > vain to install OpenOffice twice before I counted the cost in time too high. > > I am sceptical that software development has caught up with amd64. I would > ditch your OS and go back to a plain i586 or whatever Ubuntu has and get an > OpenOffice version that works. Each to his own. I bought this amd-64 laptop in May, 2005. First I tried Suse, then Mandriva, Fedora, and finally Ubuntu -- all 64-bit versions. All worked perfectly except for the video -- Ubuntu was the only one that found and automatically configured the video, so that's why I settled on Ubuntu. That was all the way back with Hoary. I never had a problem with Firefox or anything else until just now. And OOo 2.04 is working flawlessly for me except for this one drag and drop problem. I do read occasionally posts by Ubuntu amd64 users about problems installing something, but there is always a workaround. Some people don't want to be bothered with a workaround, and that is their choice. My attitude is that if I didn't want to configure anything ever, then I should have just used the Windows XP that came with this computer, because in Windows you *can't* configure anything. >From researching the drag and drop problem evidently it has happened to a mere handful of Ubuntu amd-64 users, out of hundreds of thousands of Ubuntu users. (Ubuntu now has over half the installed base of Linux users.) I scan the Ubuntu forums daily for anything new and exciting, and I have rarely seen any posts about problems with OOo. Therefore, I can only conclude that my problem is caused by something unique about my installation. I do note that there are three utilities listed in Synaptic that are not installed: openoffice.org-qa-api-tests OpenOffice.org API Test Data openoffice.org-qa-tools Automatic test programs openoffice.org-qa-ui-tests Scripts for the OpenOffice.org TestTool I wonder what these do. The only thing I can figure out from google is that "qa" means "quality assurance." I can't find any real description of their functionality. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
