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Alé Stéphane Buckland!

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Once more, Stéphane has qualified for the finals of a major sporting event. At 23:10 (MRU) tonight, he’ll run in the finals of the 200m race for the 2005 World Championships at Helsinki.

I know he’ll be among the first 3 this time

Mo sire ki pou kas paké Stéphane. Ce soir, tou Mauriciens pou ar toi! Montré sa banne Américains là  ki nou pli fort ki zot :-)

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An update:

23:25. Stéphane has come out 5th behind the 4 Americans with a good time of 20.41 seconds. I feel that he could have been 3rd had he made a better start. Stéphane, nou mari fier. To ene térib :-)

OpenOffice.org 2.0 Beta on AMD64 Gentoo Linux

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Yep! It’s true. I am now running OpenOffice.org 1.9.122 on my AMD64 Gentoo Linux box. The biggest problem with this setup is that OO needs a 32-bits version of Java and this is not available normally (as it is replaced (sensibly) by a 64-bits JVM). Here’s how I succeeded:

  • Emerge glibc-2.3.5-r1 (which is still ~amd64) because of some compatibility issues

    (1) echo "=sys-libs/glibc/glibc-2.3.5-r1 ~amd64" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords
    (2) emerge -av glibc

  • Manual install of a 32-bits Java SDK or JRE

    Go to http://java.sun.com/ and download a 32-bits Java SDK or JRE and install it manually at a suitable place (e.g. /opt/nonportage/j2sdk1.4.2_06/). I personally use a relatively old SDK which I downloaded some months ago and everything seem to work well…

  • Emerge the latest OpenOffice.Org 2.0 Beta

    The 2.0 Beta is ~amd64 and hard-masked. Looks like paranoia to me :-)

    echo "=app-office/openoffice-bin-1.9.122 ~amd64" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords
    echo "app-office/openoffice-bin" >> /etc/portage/package.unmask
    emerge -av =openoffice-bin-1.9.122

  • Modify some environment variables and run OpenOffice once

    export JDK_HOME=/opt/nonportage/j2sdk1.4.2_06
    export JAVA_HOME=${JDK_HOME}
    export JAVAC=${JDK_HOME}/bin/javac
    export PATH=${JDK_HOME}/bin:${JDK_HOME}/jre/bin:${PATH}
    export MANPATH=${MANPATH}:${JDK_HOME}/man
    /opt/OpenOffice.org/program/soffice

    Of course, replace /opt/nonportage/j2sdk1.4.2_06 by the path you used when installing the 32-bits JDK or JRE.

    Enjoy! OpenOffice will remember the location of the 32-bits Java SDK or JRE and you won’t need to modify any environment variables afterwards…