On Thu, Apr 05, 2012 at 06:35:44PM +0200, James Morrissey wrote: > On 5 April 2012 18:04, James Morrissey <morrissey.jam...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> No, if kbide is a 32-bit application, then you need to install 32-bit > >> libraries for it. Try installing "libqt4-svg:i386". > > > > Brilliant, that got it. > > Well i have still come up with problems on this. I am assuming that > all the packages that Jim mentioned have to be for from i386, so: > > libqwt5-qt4:i386 > libqwt5-qt4-dev:i386 > qt4-dev-tools:i386 > qt4-qtconfig:i386 > > The problem is that these are dependent on other features which are > needed for other programmes (things like bluefish and banshee have > come up for uninstallation).
Try just the library, i.e. libqwt5-qt4:i386. (I don't see why you should need libqwt5-qt4-dev at run-time? If you do, that may need work on our end to make the library Multi-Arch: same; although swapping out libqwt5-qt4-dev in favour of libqwt5-qt4-dev:i386 may be less intrusive than qt4-dev-tools and qt4-qtconfig as well.) > Is there not an easier way to get 32bit applications working on a 64 > bit system? I thought that a lot of this had been taken care of so > that getlibs was no longer necessary. A few things: * Multiarch, i.e. what you're seeing when you use :i386, is the road to that easier way. However, it's still being worked on quite substantially, and in 11.10 we still provide ia32-libs because multiarch wasn't complete enough there to supersede it. * This would probably be easier if the KBasic developers provided an i386-only apt repository. You could then use 'apt-get install' and apt would automatically follow :i386 dependencies. It might still need additional multiarch metadata in the Ubuntu archive, though; there's a lot to do here. * There's always the option of using a 32-bit chroot if need be, although it's obviously not ideal. schroot can help with the mechanics of using one. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
