Phill, On Sat, Jan 04, 2014 at 06:42:18PM +0000, Phill Whiteside wrote: > hope you have had a great time over the festive season. Sadly, the British > government and IT projects that work seem mutually exclusive. I did try > the multi-arch approach to solve the issue of running said government's > portal. I'm not sure how much input Canonical has on the push for use of > linux / F/oss within the government departments. It was, as is usual for > politics, announced with much sound bites, but... as usual we have seen > very little. The case of H.M. Revenues being one. It cannot work with > the 'proper' libraries. In an ideal world, some one would get a kick up > the backside to do the work - but, until then; we have to use what is > given.
For the past three cycles, the ia32-libs package has been nothing but a wrapper that pulls in the corresponding multiarch versions of a set of libraries. The problem with ia32-libs is that the set of libraries it pulled in is arbitrary, and unrelated to what's needed by any given user. It just /happened/ to work for most users, because it included the 32-bit libraries that were most commonly needed. The problem is that it included a large number of them. There was no functionality provided by the ia32-libs package which is not available by installing the individual 32-bit libraries directly. The only question is which libraries you need for your particular application. If you need help determining which libraries you need to install, I would suggest asking on one of the Ubuntu support forums such as askubuntu.com. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com vor...@debian.org > On 4 January 2014 17:49, Martin Pitt <martin.p...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > > > Hello Phill, > > > > Phill Whiteside [2013-12-29 18:29 +0000]: > > > and then we get the plug pulled for 32bit library?.... > > > > ia32-libs has always been a royal pain, gaping security hole (because > > it never really received security updates) and a hack. It was dropped > > in favor of proper "multi-arch" [1] so that you can install the real > > i386 binary packages on an amd64 machine. > > > > Martin > > > > [1] https://wiki.debian.org/Multiarch > > > > -- > > Martin Pitt | http://www.piware.de > > Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com) | Debian Developer (www.debian.org) > > > > > > -- > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/phillw > -- > technical-board mailing list > technical-board@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/technical-board
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