OpenOffice 3.0 - currently broken

[Jonas Norlander]

2008/12/12 Art Alexion <art.alexion at gmail.com>:
> On Friday 12 December 2008 11:34:24 am lanzen wrote:
>> On Friday 12 December 2008 17:08:00 Dotan Cohen wrote:
>> > You should read this first:
>> > http://www.linux.com/feature/154364
>>
>> Interesting article Dotan, thanks.
>>
>> As a matter of fact, there seems to be a possible hack #2 in getting
>> openoffice.org-kde to work nicely in Kubuntu until the guys at launchpad
>> get it together to fix it, though they seem (rightly so) too busy with
>> Amarok.
>>
>> This is it
>> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=6355296#post6355296
>> posts #42 and #34.
>>
>> Anyone interested, please be cautious!
>
> I seemed to have no choice but to install from the OOo site, as the ppa does
> not provide a 64 bit version.  The 32 bit version from the ppa will run, but
> complain about java (because 64 bit kubuntu installs 64 bit java that it
> can't find)

It do have 64 bit! I installed from PPA on my Kubuntu Intrepid amd64.

$ file /usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice.bin
/usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice.bin: ELF 64-bit LSB executable,
x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), for GNU/Linux 2.6.8, dynamically linked
(uses shared libs), stripped

Are there a bug somewhere or is it a user error because you are the
second to say there is no 64 bit?

/ Jonas