I’ve loaded openSUSE 12.2 on a new computer and I’m now busy loading various applications. One of them is 32-bit and it tells me that I need to install a 32-bit compatibility package for my distro.
Where would I find such a thing?
I’m running SUSE on an Alienware machine.
> I’ve loaded openSUSE 12.2 on a new computer and I’m now busy loading
> various applications.
12.2 is still in testing…so, you must be running a release
candidate…is that correct?
or did you intend to type 12.1?
if running 12.2 you should ONLY be posting to the forum where the other
tester discuss problems, here: http://tinyurl.com/2du7r4s
> One of them is 32-bit and it tells me that I need
> to install a 32-bit compatibility package for my distro.
>
> Where would I find such a thing?
hmmm…if you don’t know where or how to do that, then why are you
testing? (i ask, because how would you know if you have a bug, or not?)
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dd
I seem to recall that installing the 32 bit libraries was available as an option with the DVD install.
The following command should do it
su -
zypper in -t pattern 32bit
Because you do not know that you seem to be a beginner with openSUSE and
if that is true I can only fully agree to dd that you should not use an
unreleased version which is for testers.
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@guest: I’m running 12.2 because 12.1 won’t install on Alienware X51. I’m not “testing”, I’m using 12.2 as a live OS. And I posted here because I have a problem running 32-bit applications on 64-bit operating systems, not because there’s a bug in 12.2 - which seems to be running fine so far.
@wise penguin: Maybe there’s an option to load 32-bit libraries when installing the 64-bit version, but I didn’t see it. I wondered if there was a generic solution to my question. Apparently there is in Ubuntu, but that’s really not much good to me.
The workaround, of course, is to keep installing 32-bit libraries until the program loads.
still: please post all pre-release version questions in the pre-release
forum, only…even if you do not think you are dealing with a bug.
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dd
@Martin: I’ve been using openSUSE since version 10.1, and using various Unix flavours since the mid-1980s (when I started on HPUX). I don’t know if that makes me a beginner or not. I did explain why I was using 12.2, but perhaps you failed to read what I posted. If you’re at all interested in learning something, see http://forums.opensuse.org/forums/english/get-technical-help-here/install-boot-login/477185-cant-install-installing-opensuse-computer-freezes-2.html for the reason.
Am 29.08.2012 18:16, schrieb johngwalker:
>
> @Martin: I’ve been using openSUSE since version 10.1, and using various
> Unix flavours since the mid-1980s (when I started on HPUX). I don’t know
> if that makes me a beginner or not. I did explain why I was using 12.2,
> but perhaps you failed to read what I posted. If you’re at all
> interested in learning something, see http://tinyurl.com/d9zvonj for the
> reason.
>
>
I did not write my comment to offend you, so do not take it that way and
did also not investigate what you posted before (I cannot directly see
that via nntp in contrast to using directly the forum in a web browser).
It just surprised me that you seemed not knowing that there is a so
called 32bit pattern but using a bleeding edge version.
Did you try to install the pattern with the command I posted and did it
work?
If not I am afraid that the only solution is to investigate step by step
what fails with the software and install one *-32bit package after the
other which looks appropriate and look at the remaining errors, but I
see that is the conclusion you found yourself.
Myself I am also using Linux (>17 years) and Unix (~22 years) for some
time now but sometimes I am not aware of something which is absolutely
basic.
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eCAFE 800: oS 12.1 i586 | AMD Geode LX 800@500MHz | 512MB | KDE 3.5.10
@Martin: Your method was what I referred to when I said the workaround was to keep installing 32-bit libraries until the program loads. It’s what I did while I was waiting to see if anyone would reply to my query - and, in fact, had completed before any replies were posted.
It wasn’t, however, what I was asking. I think the answer is that there isn’t any sort of compatibility package.
Am 29.08.2012 19:16, schrieb johngwalker:
> It wasn’t, however, what I was asking. I think the answer is that
> there isn’t any sort of compatibility package.
>
The pattern 32bit is in fact the compatibility package (as it is itself
a rpm what other distros call a meta package which just pulls in a bunch
of standard *-32bit rpms).
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eCAFE 800: oS 12.1 i586 | AMD Geode LX 800@500MHz | 512MB | KDE 3.5.10
Hi
I think you mean package-xyz-32bit
For example zlib-32bit-1.2.7-2.1.2.x86_64.rpm
https://build.opensuse.org/package/files?package=zlib&project=openSUSE%3A12.2
and
https://build.opensuse.org/package/view_file?file=baselibs.conf&package=zlib&project=openSUSE%3A12.2&rev=e8e28361226edb603cfd37ff219b068f
If the package isn’t built with a baselibs.conf, then you need the
corresponding i5(6)86 package;
http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Build_Service_baselibs.conf
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