Hello everyone,
I am struggling with a python script + c library that REQUIRES 32bit version of python. Currently I have 64 bit on my openSuSE 12.2 … How can I install and use python 2.7.3 32bit without breaking anything?
On Fri, 07 Dec 2012 00:06:02 +0000, arooz001 wrote:
> How can I install and use python 2.7.3 32bit without breaking
> anything?
Have you tried installing the python-32bit package? Those packages are
created so they can co-exist, so it should “just work” if you install
this package (and whatever other 32bit packages you need).
Jim
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To my knowledge you can only have one Python 2.7.3 version operating on a single Linux installation. There’s nothing stopping you in YaST changing your Python version from x86_64 to i586 version. Of course if the same software you intend to create depends on 64-bit libraries, you’ll have the same problem only in reverse.
Thanks for the replies. I have installed that. the question is how do i use that? where is the binary of python 32bit located?
On Fri, 07 Dec 2012 01:16:01 +0000, arooz001 wrote:
> Thanks for the replies. I have installed that. the question is how do i
> use that? where is the binary of python 32bit located?
Offhand not sure, but you can find out with:
rpm -ql python-32bit
That’ll list all the files in the package. 
Jim
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dhcppc0:/ # zypper info python-32bit
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...
Information for package python-32bit:
Repository: openSUSE-12.2-Oss
Name: python-32bit
Version: 2.7.3-3.6.1
Arch: x86_64
Vendor: openSUSE
Installed: No
Status: not installed
Installed Size: 282.9 KiB
Summary: Python Interpreter
Description:
Python is an interpreted, object-oriented programming language, and is
often compared to Tcl, Perl, Scheme, or Java. You can find an overview
of Python in the documentation and tutorials included in the python-doc
(HTML) or python-doc-pdf (PDF) packages.
If you want to install third party modules using distutils, you need to
install python-devel package.
The relevant repository is openSUSE-12.2-Oss, which you should already have listed since it’s there by default. If not it’s at: Index of /distribution/12.2/repo/oss
… apologies… didn’t read your question properly. I assume since the binaries of the 64-version is located in /usr/lib64/, the 32-bit equivalents would be in /usr/lib/
Hmmm. after some hunting I found the executables in /usr/bin/, with no clear reference to 64-bit versioning. There are no changes to these executables after installing the 32-bit version in addition.
Looking at the Arch forums, https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=100193 , having the two together concurrently is theoretically possible but not straightforward.
A rather perverse and twisted way is to install Wine and install a 32-bit version of Python for Windows within it.