Hi,

> Ok, I suppose someone has got to ask this.

Yes. ;)

>> Are their plans to make an OOo 2.0 .deb for AMD64? AIUI it should 
>> compile for AMD64 so I assume there will be a package eventually. 
>> It's now in the RC stage so I presume it is close to being ready.
>> If there are plans when can we expect to see it appear as I am really 
>> fed up of maintaining a chroot?

before it's an official release, you can do it like this, I think:

> 1) Loading of openoffice.org2_1.9.121-2.diff.gz,
>    openoffice.org2_1.9.121-2.dsc, openoffice.org2_1.9.121.orig.tar.gz
>    from the location
> http://amd64.debian.net/debian-amd64/pool/main/o/openoffice.org2/
> 
> 2) In the loading directory I have given the following commands
>    dpkg-source -x openoffice.org2_1.9.121-2.dsc
>    cd openoffice.org2_1.9.121
> 3) I have edited the file debian/control with "vi debian/control" and
>    I have changed all the occurrence i386 (near Architecture)
>    with amd64.
> 
> Note: I don't remember if I have also adjusted the Dependencies
> 
> 4) I have given the command
>    dpkg-buildpackage
>    which have constructed many packages.
> 
> which I found in this list-archive of one month ago...
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-amd64/2005/09/msg00019.html

When it will be added officially on debain-amd64, I don'nt know. 
But the basic official release of OOo2 will be on 14th of October, I 
think...

regards, 
sigi.


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