running openoffice from chroot

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Newsgroups:  gmane.linux.debian.ports.amd64
Date:        Tue, 22 Feb 2005 10:25:42 +0100

Ted:

> I'm assuming you are using dchroot to run openoffice in the chroot?

Yes, that's exactly my setup, as described in the howto. But. I did not use the apostrophes. With the filename between apostrophes it does indeed work.

Clive:

> expert and can't guess what the problem may be.  Did you install amd64
> and then install the 32bit system in the chroot (as I did) or the other

I have a 64bit system, and a 32bit chroot inside of it. The only tricky business is that this weekend I reinstalled my 64 bit system, but without reinstalling the chroot. The chroot was in my /home which is on its own partition.

So in conclusion, is there any way to tell KDE to put apostrophes around filenames when it calls various programs?

Alex.

running openoffice from chroot

> So in conclusion, is there any way to tell KDE to put apostrophes
> around filenames when it calls various programs?

Yes, but a better thing is to fix dchroot's / su's stupidity with a script (make this do_chroot):

#!/bin/bash

# Work around dchroot brain-deadness
ARGS=""
for i in "$@" ; do
         ARGS="$ARGS '$i'"
done

exec dchroot -c ia32 -d -q "`basename $0`" "$ARGS"

Much eaiser.

Adam

running openoffice from chroot

>Yes, but a better thing is to fix dchroot's / su's stupidity with a
>script (make this do_chroot):
>
>I don't understand. What should I do with this script?

From the FAQ:

You can make things slightly simpler even than this. Write a small
shell script like the following, and place it in your PATH: eg.
/usr/local/bin/do_dchroot

Make it executable:

chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/do_dchroot

Now create a symlink to this script from each command you want to run inside the chroot to this shell script:

cd /usr/local/bin
ln -s do_dchroot openoffice
ln -s do_dchroot oowriter
ln -s do_dchroot oocalc

Now you can execute openoffice by simply typing openoffice or oowriter.

Peter