Re: ia32-libs vs. ia32 chroot

[Phil Warrick <philip.warrick@mcgill.ca>]

> IA32 Chroot:
> + Can install other libraries very easily
> + Can add library directories to /etc/ld.so.conf so it runs like the 
> ia32-libs
> - Slightly more effort to setup
> - Takes up quite a bit more space
>
> ia32-libs:
> + Install and run (for limited library dependencies)
> - Not a complete 32bit system (Ie running 32bit firefox isn't anywhere 
> near as easy)
> + Less space
>
> In my opinion that about sums up the important points to consider, I've 
> probably missed a couple or explained some badly though
>
> Alan

Thanks, Alan.

I'm going with the chroot approach then.

Following the AMD64 HOWTO in section "Running applications inside the 
chroot",  I followed the instructions and then I wanted to try to run a 
32-bit program.

First I wanted to try to run some X-based program so I tried openoffice, 
which was not yet installed.  When I tried to install it in the chroot, 
I got the following errors below.

So I wondered whether I needed X installed in the chroot, but this did 
not work either (see below).

Then I wondered if it was not X but some other configuration problem so 
I tried to install wine.  Again some sort of dependency problem.

Can someone indicate what might be wrong?  I'm using kernel 
2.6.8-9-amd-k8-smp on a dual Opteron system.

Any help would be appreciated.

Phil


# apt-get install openoffice.org
Reading Package Lists...
Building Dependency Tree...
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.

Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  openoffice.org: Depends: openoffice.org-debian-files (> 
1.1.1+1.1.2rc3) but it is not going to be installed
                  Depends: openoffice.org-bin (> 1.1.1+1.1.2rc3) but it 
is not going to be installed
                  Depends: dictionaries-common (>= 0.10) but it is not 
going to be installed or
                           openoffice.org-updatedicts


# apt-get install x-window-system
Reading Package Lists...
Building Dependency Tree...
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.

Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  x-window-system: Depends: x-window-system-core but it is not going to 
be installed
                   Depends: xdm but it is not going to be installed
                   Depends: xterm but it is not going to be installed

# apt-get install wine
Reading Package Lists...
Building Dependency Tree...
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.

Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  wine: Depends: xbase-clients (>= 4.0) but it is not going to be 
installed or
                 xcontrib