ia32 chroot caveat(s)
While the chroot has relieved several problems with amd64, two issues
should be raised:
1. Using the 32-bit firefox is problematic because it will not serve as
a useful directory viewer unless one does some significant binding. a
chrooted application only views the files within the chroot. So, for
example the directory /usr/share/doc will show the limited documentation
within the chroot.
2. I have had very limited success loading a full and satisfying set of
fonts in the chroot. I have another post on this difficulty but, to
recapitulate, when I try to install, for example, xfonts-75dpi on the
chroot, I get the following response:
chalcogenide:/# apt-get install xfonts-75dpi
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Suggested packages:
xfs xserver
The following NEW packages will be installed:
xfonts-75dpi
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/3470kB of archives.
After unpacking 4645kB of additional disk space will be used.
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = "en_US:en_GB:en",
LC_ALL = (unset),
LANG = "en_US"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
Selecting previously deselected package xfonts-75dpi.
(Reading database ... 26278 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking xfonts-75dpi (from .../xfonts-75dpi_1%3a1.0.0-2_all.deb) ...
Setting up xfonts-75dpi (1.0.0-2) ...
warning: /usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi does not exist or is not a directory
warning: /etc/X11/fonts/75dpi does not exist or is not a directory
warning: /usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi does not exist or is not a directory
There is a cryptic statement in the document
https://alioth.debian.org/docman/view.php/30192/21/debian-amd64-howto.html
under The quick way about simply installing the ia32-libs package in the
64bit space, but no guidance about how to install or run once this has
been accomplished. It would be useful if this were fleshed out so that
users could compare the two strategies themselves.
Art Edwards
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