Re: native 32 bit binaries on amd64

[edwardsa <edwardsa@afrl.kirtland.af.mil>]

I have successfully installed the chroot as described in the HOWTO. Both 
Firefox and openoffice are working. However, I only have a few fonts. 
When I tried to install other font packages such as xfonts-100dpi I receive

Setting up xfonts-100dpi (1.0.0-2) ...
warning: /usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi does not exist or is not a directory
warning: /etc/X11/fonts/100dpi does not exist or is not a directory
warning: /usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi does not exist or is not a directory

Any help would be appreciated.

Art Edwards

jmt wrote:
> 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
>
>
>   

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