summary: solution: install jessie package=libc6:i386 et al
details:
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https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2014/05/msg00129.html [Mike Kupfer Fri, 02 May 2014 21:02:48 -0700]
>>>> The error message from bash is... unfortunate, to say the least.
I'd like to bug-report, except
https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2014/05/msg00146.html [Sven Joachim Sat, 03 May 2014 07:38:28 +0200]
>>> [bash] can't do any better though, because the kernel just reports ENOENT
>>> when you try to run a program and its ELF interpreter [is] missing.
I'm the first to admit that I am, as a software developer, probably several orders of magnitude less than the linux kernel folks. That being said, in all my code I try to provide error messages that at best help the user actually solve the problem, and at least do not misrepresent the etiology. So if anyone has suggestions regarding how/where to put a bug that might result in a positive outcome, please lemme know.
thanks all! Tom Roche <Tom_Roche@pobox.com>