On Vi, 28 nov 14, 12:50:56, Ross Boylan wrote: > Judging from https://wiki.debian.org/Multiarch/HOWTO, which doesn't > seem current but is all I could find, if I'm on the amd64 architecture > and want to support i386 I should expect to get packages like > libc6:i386. There are a number of other packages that seem to have > versions for 32 bit without needing to specify an architecture suffix, > e.g. lib32z1 (32 bit version of zlib1g I think). > > Further, I have those packages though I don't think I installed them > explicitly.
If I'm not mistaken such packages will be disappearing in the future,
don't concern yourself too much with them.
> Finally, I have not issued the command
> dpkg --add-architecture i386
> though the wiki made it sound as if I would need to to get 32 bit libs.
>
> Could anyone explain what is going on and what I need to do so I can
> run a 32 bit app? I'm trying to install Juniper Networks proprietary
> client, which includes a 32 bit library binary without the source.
The basic steps to install a proprietary 32 bit application on an amd64
install would be
dpkg --add-architecture i386
apt-get update
dpkg -i proprietary.deb
# if dpkg complains about missing dependencies
apt-get install -f # short for --fix-broken
Kind regards,
Andrei
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