I wonder how I run openoffice (or acroread) on my Debian amd64 Etch. I know how to run a chroot with openoffice, but now I wan to try emulation with the ia32-libs. Who can help me with this?

Why bother ... Just get the real 64-bit OpenOffice.org from Sid ... Works great.

For "acroread," install evince.

Openoffice 64-bit?! Debian must be the first to offer this

They usually are.

I hope they advertise this properly so that get the credits for this major contribution to the Linux community.

P.S.

Do you happen to know how I get flash working?

In AMD64 Sid there is a program called "gnash." ($ apt-cache search gnash) Install gnash and the appropriate browser plugin, plus any of the related packages you want.

It's a little bit shaky yet, but it's a big improvement over no flash at all.

aah now I see, I couldn't find anything in the Etch repos . Thanks m8!

Hmm oowriter seems to be really unstable. Do you happen to know where I can file a bug report? Here: http://www.debian.org/Bugs/ or is another place more appropiate?

Thanks again!

I have another one . Can I run wine on amd64?

Nope. Not unless you're willing to set up a chroot. Google "wine amd64 debian". As far as I can tell there is not even a 64-bit Wine in the works.

Personally, I am very happy about that. Never have understood why the 1st thing people want to do with their Linux installation is set up a Windows emulator. I also refuse to use ndiswrapper. There is no need for me to use software designed for Windows, thus allowing hardware and software vendors to continue to ignore Linux. If you need to run Windows apps, that's why we have dual boot systems.

you can force install it.

dpkg -i --force all winepackagename

Works for me. I use wine for some video tools.