Installing 32 bit java on a 64 bit 8.10

[Jonas Norlander]

2008/12/12 Art Alexion <art.alexion at gmail.com>:
> Perhaps I shouldn't be doing this at all, and there is a better solution, but
> I am open to all suggestions.
>
> I have a 64 bit installation of 8.10.  I installed Firefox from mozilla.com in
> /opt.  Presumably it installed 32 bit Firefox.  Now it can't find java.
>
> I also installed OpenOffice 3 from the PPA, and being 32 bit, it wants 32 bit
> java.
>
> I suppose I have two alternatives.  (1) install 32 bit java, or (2) remove
> Firefox and OpenOffice and download and install the 64 bit versions.
>
> Recommendations and a 32 bit java howto appreciated.
>

The firefox in the repository is up to date and 64 bit why did you
install another?
And how did you manage to get 32 bit for openoffice from the PPA there
is amd64 package there to and they should be chosen by itself if are
you running 64 bit.

$ apt-cache show openoffice.org
Package: openoffice.org
Source: openoffice.org
Priority: optional
Section: editors
Installed-Size: 44
Maintainer: Ubuntu Core Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss at lists.ubuntu.com>
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1:3.0.0-6ubuntu0intrepid1

My suggestion is to uninstall firefox and openoffice. Install firefox
from the repro. java is working fine with it. Make sure your source
list entry for Openoffice from the PPA are OK.
This is mine:
$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ppa-openoffice.list
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/openoffice-pkgs/ubuntu intrepid main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/openoffice-pkgs/ubuntu intrepid main

There is a bug in the openoffice 3 packages from PPA that prevents you
from running it. There is a thread on this list about it. A workaround
is to remove the openoffice.org-kde package.

/ Jonas