While the chroot has relieved several problems with amd64, two issues
should be raised:
1. Using the 32-bit firefox is problematic because it will not serve
as a useful directory viewer unless one does some significant
binding. a chrooted application only views the files within the
chroot. So, for example the directory /usr/share/doc will show the
limited documentation within the chroot.
2. I have had very limited success loading a full and satisfying set
of fonts in the chroot. I have another post on this difficulty but, to
recapitulate, when I try to install, for example, xfonts-75dpi on the
chroot, I get the following response:
chalcogenide:/# apt-get install xfonts-75dpi
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Suggested packages:
xfs xserver
The following NEW packages will be installed:
xfonts-75dpi
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/3470kB of archives.
After unpacking 4645kB of additional disk space will be used.
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = "en_US:en_GB:en",
LC_ALL = (unset),
LANG = "en_US"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
Selecting previously deselected package xfonts-75dpi.
(Reading database ... 26278 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking xfonts-75dpi (from .../xfonts-75dpi_1%3a1.0.0-2_all.deb) ...
Setting up xfonts-75dpi (1.0.0-2) ...
warning: /usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi does not exist or is not a directory
warning: /etc/X11/fonts/75dpi does not exist or is not a directory
warning: /usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi does not exist or is not a directory