On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 11:08:59AM +0100, Giacomo Mulas wrote: > On Tue, 29 Nov 2005, Ralph Katz wrote: > > >Wait! After about 6 minutes... watching top, seeing kaffe-bin take 76% > >cpu, I see an OOo logo... and this: > > Your problem is probably a mixed up set of alternatives. Install a complete, > working java runtime environment (kaffe apparently is not able to run OOo2, > from what you report) then make sure that all relevant alternatives point to > it. I use the blackdown 1.4 java port, debianised using the tools in > java-package, since it's available in the same version for both amd64 and > i386. I made sure that the alternatives it offers (look in > /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives) have a higher priority than all the others and > this magically produced a working OOo2. Actually, I can seamlessly use > either the binaries which can be downloaded from OOo (after properly > unpacking them to /usr/local) or the debian backport. Both work. However, > since I had already done the work of installing the original binaries, I > left them running on the cluster I administer, in production, I only > installed the sarge backport on my development/testing workstation. >
None of the free Java alternatives in Sarge are capable of running OOo2, even if it is patched. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto
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