OpenOffice.org and the Evolution addressbook
My laptop has 64 bit hardware and runs Fedora Core 5 (64 bit obviously). By itself this is not earth shattering news. That is, until I wanted to insert one of the contacts from my Evolution address book in an OpenOffice.org writer document. Something like a mail merge. This used to work fine on my FC4 box but not on my laptop. It took browsing through about 200 pages of output from stracing oobase to figure out that OpenOffice.org Base (the database component) could not find the proper libebook libraries. And why was that 64 bit part important? Well, because OpenOffice.org Base could not find the proper libebook libraries in /usr/lib/. Admittedly, it’s easy to forget that not all applications on FC5 are 64 bit. Fortunately, a quick install of the 32 bit libebook libraries solved the issue:
$ sudo yum install evolution-data-server.i386$ sudo yum install evolution-data-server-devel.i386