Re: LUG: Staroffice + amd64 = ? - Sun, 30 Apr 2006 11:04:23 -0400

Subject : Re: LUG: Staroffice + amd64 = ?

From : "Jesus M. Rodriguez" <jmrodri@gmail.[redacted]>

Date : Sun, 30 Apr 2006 11:04:23 -0400

You're probably much better off just using the latest edition of OpenOffice.org
(http://www.openoffice.org/). But I suspect the problem is the 1.5 VM
is a 64-bit
VM while Staroffice 8 is probably 32-bits (it's not 100% pure java) so
I think it matters.

sincerely,
jesus

On 4/30/06, jahutton@ncsu.[redacted] <jahutton@ncsu.[redacted]> wrote:
>
> So I've come nto my possession a free (but 100% legit) copy of staroffice 8. I want to install it and check it out (i know its almost exactly like oo, but i just want to try it out). I'm running a gentoo amd64 with sun's 1.5 jdk as my system vm (and its working fine). The problem comes when I attempt to run the installer I get a:
>
> Running installer
> Attach to native process failed
> 0022
>
> Sun's Staroffice site is horrible (broken links etc). I'm just looking to see if the software would install on the system (don't want to waste free software).
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
>
> James Hutton
>