AMD64: Openoffice does not work after upgrade to Breezy

[James Gray]

On Monday 07 November 2005 09:56, Thomas Kaiser (ubuntu) wrote:
> Hello James
>
> James Gray wrote:
> > I believe this is the package you need to resolve the OOo + zlib error on
> > 64bit (AMD64) platforms:
> >
> > lib32z1_1.2.3-3ubuntu4_amd64.deb
> >
> > Version numbers may vary slightly, but this is the right package :)
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > James
>
> Looks like this one is installed (actually I checked before I did the
> hack): thomas at AMD64:/home/thomas # dpkg -l | grep lib32z1
> ii  lib32z1                                         1.2.3-3ubuntu4
>                   compression library - 32 bit runtime
>
> thomas at AMD64:/home/thomas # ls /var/cache/apt/archives/lib32z*
> /var/cache/apt/archives/lib32z1_1%3a1.2.3-3ubuntu4_amd64.deb
>
> And if I do:
> thomas at AMD64:~$ sudo apt-get remove lib32z1
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree... Done
> The following packages will be REMOVED:
>    ia32-libs ia32-libs-gtk ia32-libs-openoffice.org lib32gcj6 lib32z1
> lsb lsb-core lsb-cxx lsb-graphics openoffice.org
>    openoffice.org-bin openoffice.org-gtk-gnome
> openoffice.org1-debian-files openoffice.org2 openoffice.org2-base
>    openoffice.org2-calc openoffice.org2-common openoffice.org2-core
> openoffice.org2-draw openoffice.org2-gnome
>    openoffice.org2-impress openoffice.org2-math openoffice.org2-writer
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 23 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> Need to get 0B of archives.
> After unpacking 381MB disk space will be freed.
> Do you want to continue [Y/n]? n
> Abort.
>
> I can see that it depends on openoffice.

Ah - I think I had to add the directory of the 32bit library 
to /etc/ld.so.conf then regenerate the library cache (ldconfig) so OOo could 
find it.  Dammit - if only I'd left my AMD64 machine on this morning, I could 
ssh into it and give you all the details...sorry! :P

HTH,

James
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