OpenOffice.org Java and AMD64 SOLVED

[Andy Choens]

I am posting this here so it's in the archives in case anyone else wants to
do this. If you aren't trying to get Java to work in OpenOffice.org on
AND64, then this is really a waste of your time. If you are.....here's the
solution.

I was disapointed with the speed OOo ran at under Java in Ubuntu. My system
was using the Free Software Foundation libraries for Java emulation.
Although I agree with this idea from an ideological standpoint, it's just to
slow to use right now. I need to be able to manipulate some relatively large
databases I made using the HSQLDB engine on my old machine, and this simply
wasn't cutting it.

So, I tried to install the amd64 version of Java. A little apt-get and I was
in business, right? No! So, I installed Sun Java 1.5. Same deal. No matter
what I did, OpenOffice would not recognize these as legitimate JREs. I was
getting soooo frustrated. Then, while in synaptic staring at everything it
called up when I searched for openoffice, I saw a compatibility library
installed called ia32. This is a set of runtime libs so OpenOffice can run
on AMD64. That means that OpenOffice.org is NOT compiled for AMD64 on my
machine. I assumed it was...since I am using the AMD64 version of Ubuntu.

I then installed Sun Java 1.5 !!x86!! to /usr/lib32. When I pointed
OpenOffice to this JRE, it accepted it right away and now
OpenOffice.orgruns like greased lightning.

I wish I had known earlier that OOo was still compiled 32-bit! Much PITA
could have been saved.

--andy
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