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Re: Video with Etch Chroot on amd64?



On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 9:07 AM, Thomas H. George wrote:
> There may be no good reason for the 32-bit chroot.  I was influenced by
> the following quote, "If you're going to point out nspluginwrapper,
> please also tell me how to make sound with Pulse/Audio work in that
> setup." from the http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/nix/chroot.  At the
> time I read this I had failed to make nspluginwrapper work and had read
> postings on the users list which suggested the 32-bit chroot was a good
> solution.  Not understanding chroot I searched for guidance in setting
> upt the 32-chroot.  Even though I don't use Pulse/Audio this reference
> suggested I was on the right track.  Actually
> www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference sections 8.6.35.1-3 were the most
> help in setting up the 32-chroot and the result is pretty neat even if
> unnecessary.

I understand, and was not aware of this. Thank you for the indication.

> Finally, the truth is I still have not gotten nspluginwrapper to work.
> When I first tried some months ago (I work on this intermittantly) I had
> found some complicated instructions which led me to a point where init
> would have been destroyed.  Yesterday I tried again with the
> straightforward instructions from iceape/help/plugins and the
> installation still fails with a message "error while loading shared
> libraries: libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: no such
> file or directory."
>
> I'm working on fixing this.

Just to be sure, insure that you have the ia32-libs-gtk. Installing
ia32-libs usually solves these issues...

HTH and thanks for the explanation.

Kumar
-- 
Kumar Appaiah


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