AMD64: Openoffice does not work after upgrade to Breezy

[James Gray]

On Monday 07 November 2005 02:28, Thomas Kaiser (ubuntu) wrote:
> Hallo
>
> When I try to run openoffice, I get this error:
>
> thomas at AMD64:~$ openoffice
> OpenOffice.org for Debian - see
> /usr/share/doc/openoffice.org/README.Debian.gz
> Previous version found: OpenOffice.org 1.1.3
> upgrading openoffice.org user configuration...
> /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 -----
>
> thomas at AMD64:~$ whereis libz.so.1
> libz.so: /usr/lib/libz.so.1 /usr/lib/libz.so
>
> thomas at AMD64:~$ ldconfig -p |grep libz.so.1
>          libz.so.1 (libc6,x86-64) => /usr/lib/libz.so.1
>
>
> libz.so.1 seems correctly installed. Why does openoffice not see it?

OOo is looking for the 32bit Zlib (the 64bit zlib wont cut it).  When I had 
this exact problem a few weeks ago I hunted down a 32bit compatibility 
library that OOo was happy with that DIDN'T involve downloading some 
back-ported 32bit Zlib from the i386 Ubuntu - that is NOT the way to fix this 
problem.

Try searching the packages for "libz" and "32";
apt-get search libz | grep 32

I'm not in front of my AMD64 machine at the moment (not even online actually) 
- when I am I'll post back the info about how I got it all working for the 
archives.

Cheers,

James
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