Re: HOWTO Installing a Debian IA32 chroot system

[garys@opusnet.com (Gary W. Swearingen)]

Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> writes:

> Please ignore that and instead just "apt-get install libc6-i386". That
> package will provide the linker and a 32bit libc that will be current.

Thanks for the help.  That command (by root) apparently failed:

$ apt-get install libc6-i386
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
E: Couldn't find package libc6-i386

So I installed libc6-i386 (and libc6-amd64 for no particular reason)
using "aptitude", which is how I've been installing things so far.
(I'm not only a refuge from FreeBSD, but from Red Hat, so I'm new to
apt-get, etc.)

> That is what you get for not using debs. rpms don't have Debians
> dependencies. (I know, it can't be helped. But it isn't our fault if
> it breaks.)

I've only used "aptitude" (which I suppose uses debs), but I'm
guessing that "realplayer" isn't free enough for Debian and thus isn't
supported by "aptitude", so I was running Real's installer gizmo that
came with a realplayer RPM.

So my next question is how to get libstdc++.so.5 from an official
Debian site, or must I go looking for it in the wild.  I couldn't find
it (as "libc5" or such) using "aptitude".

Thanks again.