Avi wrote:
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.
I checked and I already have the 32 bit libs installed (and Chrome and Flash
work fine if any proof were needed). I concur that dpkg is probably throwing a
wobbly and I should have mentioned that the Ubuntu package is labeled a Beta so
that in itself may be the problem. Compiling from source is unfortunately not an
option because although this software is free as in beer it is not open source
software. I was planning on downloading the windows version originally and
running under wine but was pleasantly surprised to find a .deb package and then
disappointed it did not work.
Ho hum.
Cheers
Ian
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