[PLUG] Announcement: Linux Clinic this Saturday

[Kenneth G. Stephens]

On Sat, 2005-10-15 at 16:48 -0700, John Jordan wrote:
> On 15 Oct 2005, at 11:23, Kenneth G. Stephens wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 2005-10-15 at 09:12 -0700, John Jordan wrote:
> > > Adobe Reader 7.0 aborts the installation with an error message that
> > > it requires a 32-bit OS, therefore I cannot install it on my
> > > Ubuntu-64 distro. Someone on this list said he had it running on a
> > > 64-bit distro using chroot. I've googled and read all I could find
> > > about chroot, but I couldn't figure out the instructions. Its
> > > purpose seems to be something other than what I want to use it for.
> > > 
> > > So if I go to the clinic today, is there likely to be a guru there
> > > who knows how to get chroot working? It's so much easier to figure
> > > something out in a hands-on environment!
> > 
> > Check to see that you have the 32bit compat libraries loaded.
> 
> Ken,
> 
> Just got home from the clinic. While there and with help from 
> others I found more information. Apparently there are two ways to 
> do it -- via 32-bit compat libraries and via chroot. 
> 
> I did not yet get it working, but did determine that my 64-bit Ubuntu 
> does not have the 32-bit compat libraries installed. That seems the 
> easier route of the two, so that's what I want to try first. However, I 
> can't find the name of the 32-bit compat libraries or where to get 
> them from. They might be already listed in Synaptic if I knew what I 
> was looking for. Any idea what they are called?

Got a hit when googling; compat 32bit libraries rpm

Ken
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