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Unbuntu 8.04 64 bit - some applications not available

  • 03-06-2008 12:28AM
    #1
    An Fear Aniar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,377 ✭✭✭


    I've noticed this a bit, tried to install Opera and Zattoo and they're not available for 64 bit systems yet.

    Anyone know if the Open Source elves are busy getting them ready or anything?



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  • #2
    Naikon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,564 ✭✭✭Naikon


    You could set up a chroot environment to allow use of 32-bit binaries on your 64-bit machine.
    This will require a re-partition, and a new install of a 32-bit distro though.

    http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=18001


  • #3
    djmarkus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,606 ✭✭✭djmarkus


    There is no reason why 32 bit apps arent available on 64bit, all thats needed is the 32 bit library dependencies. Suse handles this well, i dont know about ubuntu.


  • #4
    An Fear Aniar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,377 ✭✭✭An Fear Aniar


    djmarkus wrote: »
    There is no reason why 32 bit apps arent available on 64bit, all thats needed is the 32 bit library dependencies. Suse handles this well, i dont know about ubuntu.

    Oh, I downloaded them from websites, so they wouldn't have looked at dependencies.

    I tried

    apt-get install opera

    first but it didn't recognise the package. The APT manager would normally sort out dependencies for me.


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  • #5
    djmarkus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,606 ✭✭✭djmarkus


    Because opera isnt free software it probably wont be in the default repositories


  • #6
    Khannie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,485 ✭✭✭✭Khannie


    djmarkus wrote: »
    There is no reason why 32 bit apps arent available on 64bit, all thats needed is the 32 bit library dependencies. Suse handles this well, i dont know about ubuntu.

    Ubuntu handles this very well too. In work I just switched from i386 7.04 to x86_64 8.04 today.....

    sudo apt-get install ia32-libs


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  • #7
    boomslang
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 203 ✭✭boomslang


    When installing via dpkg there is an option to force architecture. As mentioned above you may have to resolve 32 bit dependencies though.


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