[Novalug] mint debian adventures

Roger W. Broseus RogerB@bronord.com
Tue Feb 3 16:02:49 EST 2015


Bonnie,

Might "pinning" help you? Ref: https://wiki.debian.org/AptPreferences
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Roger Broseus
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On Tue, February 3, 2015 15:13, Bonnie Dalzell via Novalug wrote:
> Recently I have been trying to use a free but not open source program
> that was compiled only for 32 bit linux.
>
> Some 64 bit linux flavors also have 32 bit libraries for things like GTk2
> and others do not. It turns out that some of the 64 bit versions such
> as Mint17 Qiana will allow you to install the ia32-libs from their
> repository or by using ia32-libs-multiarch. Others such as LMDE (Linux
> Mint Debian Edition) do not have them in the repository as they are
> considered deprecated.
>
> I have found that Xubuntu 12.04 Precise 64 bit still has 32 bit libraries.
>
> A question:
>
> If I have the libraries present in /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu on one
> root install can I just copy those files across to usr/lib on another
> root install or do you need to go through something like apt or synaptic
> to get them in place?
>
> if you have copied them over is there a command to get the OS to
> become aware of them (is that what linking is?).
>
> In addition IF i had the source code for the program - which I DP NOT
> have, sadly - could it easily be recompiled to use the equivalent GTk 64
> bit libraries?
>
> I was thinking of asking the author of the program if he had thought of
> doing so.
>
> Also if a program is compiled for 32 bit and is running on a 64 bit
> machine thanks to the multiarch and 32bit GTK libraries - would that
> cause it to run very slow?
>
> The Windows version of this program running under WINE is too slow to be
> useful. A look up in a large index can take minutes.
>
> The 32 bit Linux version is usable although a bit sluggish.
>
> My system is a 3 year old quad-core AMD with 8GB of ram.
> description: CPU
>            product: AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 965 Processor
>            size: 800MHz
>            capacity: 3400MHz
>            width: 64 bits
>            clock: 200MHz
>
> I am impressed by the author as he has MAC Windows and Linux editions and
> gives the Linux and old Versions of MAC OS and Windows OS versions away
> free.
>
>
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