Re: ia32-libs vs. ia32 chroot

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

bob@proulx.com (Bob Proulx) writes:

> Phil Warrick wrote:
>> 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.
>> [...]
>> Can someone indicate what might be wrong?  I'm using kernel 
>> 2.6.8-9-amd-k8-smp on a dual Opteron system.
>
> Check your /etc/apt/sources.list file *in the chroot* and make sure it
> can get to the 32-bit archive.  Make sure that 'apt-get update' works
> in the chroot.  It looks to me like apt has no package lists at all.
>
> If you have 'dchroot' configured you can run the commands like this:
>
>   dchroot editor /etc/apt/sources.list
>
>   dchroot apt-get update
>   dchroot apt-get install openoffice.org
>
> Bob

Don't forget /etc/hosts, /etc/passwd, /etc/groups, /etc/shadow,
/etc/mtab, /proc in the chroot.

MfG
        Goswin