Re: i386 Wine on an amd64 without chroot

[Tobias Krais <krais@bats.ch>]

Hi together,

> >>In my experience, if you don't have a complete chroot in
> >>/emul/ia32-linux/, you can, after installing ia32-libs, just getting the
> >>necessary i386 debs for whatever other libraries you need and run "sudo
> >>dpkg -x foo.deb /emul/ia32-linux/" and it will be extracted into the
> >>appropriate directories.
> >
> >Dumb question:  How do you get the i386 debs?  Do you have to get them 
> >manually by browsing debian.org's archive, or is there some way of telling 
> >apt to get a deb for a different architecture?
> >  
> >
> Just get them manually off the debian.org archive.

OK. I will try it with a chroot environment. Hopefully my Openoffice
will run afterwards again :-) (but I know how to reinstall it.

Greetings, Tobias