Hi all, OpenOffice is still quite far from being usable for amd64 architecture. I would like to share what I know about this package and try to make it easier for people to contribute to the amd64 port (bug reports, patches, and so on).
First of all, few links about OpenOffice: http://www.openoffice.org/ http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Porting_to_x86-64_(AMD64,_EM64T) http://openoffice.debian.net/ http://packages.qa.debian.org/o/openoffice.org.html Preparing to compile (to be done once): 1) Add the following line to your /etc/apt/sources.list: deb-src ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/ experimental main contrib 2) Update: su -c 'apt-get update' 3) Get the packages needed to compile openoffice.org: su -c 'apt-get build-dep -t experimental openoffice.org' Note: The package boost-build is needed but might not be in the list of the build-dep (install it by hand if needed) Once you got all these done, we can get the source and compile it: 1) Get the source from the experimental Debian repository (getting the sources from the experimental makes it sure to track bugs on the very last version): apt-get source -t experimental openoffice.org 2) Move to the build directory (currently 2.0.3-3) cd openoffice-* 3) Ask to build the amd64 arch packages In debian/rules change the 'BUILD_AMD64=n' in 'BUILD_AMD64=y'. 4) Build the package (this might take quite a while) dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -us -uc On my computer, the compilation seems to work for the 2.0.3-3 (I had few problems with 2.0.3-2) but it takes quite a long time (count approximately 6-8 hours) and quite a lot of space used during the process. Once the build process end up, you should find all the debian packages located one step up from the source directory (openoffice.org-2.0.3/). Install it and try it and report bugs either to the debian team (through the reportbug tools for example) or (better) directly to the OpenOffice team: http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/submission_gateway.html#code_module Making a patch for the debian build system of the openoffice.org packages is quite complex, I might speak about this later on. Regards -- Emmanuel Fleury | Office: 211 Associate Professor, | Phone: +33 (0)5 40 00 35 24 LaBRI, Domaine Universitaire | Fax: +33 (0)5 40 00 66 69 351, Cours de la Libération | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 33405 Talence Cedex, France | URL: http://www.labri.fr/~fleury -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
