Richard Forth wrote:
http://maketecheasier.com/run-32-bit-apps-in-64-bit-linux/2009/08/10
Hope this helps, let me knw :)
I think the error he's hitting is produced by dpkg when it notices it's
expecting an amd64 package and is being passed an x86 one. I've never
seen an app exit that cleanly from being run on the wrong arch.
Dpkg has no inherent understanding of any compatibility between the two,
so treats it as if it were any other wrong arch.
There is a switch to force dpkg to ignore the wrong architecture (it's
under --force so do be careful with it), but I don't know how easy it is
to then get the app to work. I'd suspect it's 'just' a matter of
prepending any calls to it with 'linux32' (in menus etc.) but I can't
talk from genuine experience. The last time I used linux32 it was messy,
but that was some time ago.
More ideal might be to download the source and hand build it? Especially
for a CAD package which I'd imagine would quite like those 64 bit words.
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