On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 01:21:36PM -0500, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > And, if so, how bad? I have installed Kompozer (the successor to > Nvu), but the Debian package is a 32-bit package. I forced it to > install anyway, and it seems to run just fine, although launching it > caused a bunch of the following :Gtk-WARNING **: > /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/immodules/im-uim.so: wrong ELF class: > ELFCLASS64. > > Is there an Approved Way of installing 32-bit packages when no 64-bit > package is available? (Kompozer is not in the official Debian > repository, for some reason.)
Yes. Its called an i386 chroot. You then use schroot to access the program as a normal user and it takes care of bind-mounting all the necessary directories. If you just have the one package you want to install, I would use mc to enter the deb then manually copy the files to /usr/local or /opt. However, some programes are hard-coded to think that they are in e.g. /usr/bin and their libs are in /usr/lib and will look in /usr/lib instead of ../lib/ Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
