On Thursday 15 June 2006 19:18, edwardsa wrote:
While I understand that to keep a purely 64-bit environment some
recommend that AMD64 users set up a chrooted environment, I would like
to know:
1. The practical disadvantages of installing the ia-32 libraries to run,
for example, open office
Very few, if any. Things like links between mime-types and applications might
be unable to work in case of a sophisticated graphic environment.
2. After I have installed the ia-32 libraries, how to install the 32-bit
binaries for open office.
Thanks,
Art Edwards
Add lines like the following to your .bashrc : (ia32 is the symbolic name to
the chrooted environment ; see man dchroot for option d)
alias openoffice-1='LC_ALL=fr_FR.UTF-8 dchroot -c ia32 -d /usr/bin/openoffice'
alias mozilla-ia32='dchroot -c ia32 -d /usr/bin/firefox'
alias googleearth='dchroot -c ia32 -d /home/jmt/local/bin/googleearth'
alias geomview-ia32='dchroot -c ia32 -d /usr/bin/geomview'
See also amd64 how-to :
http://alioth.debian.org/docman/view.php/30192/21/debian-amd64-howto.html
Hope this helps
jmt