[PLUG] Need Help with Aptitude on Debian

[Bill Barry]

On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 5:43 PM, Mark Phillips
<mark at phillipsmarketing.biz>wrote:

> Well, dpkg didn't work....
>
> orca:/tmp# dpkg -i libmpg123-0_1.10.0-2_i386.deb
> dpkg: error processing libmpg123-0_1.10.0-2_i386.deb (--install):
>  package architecture (i386) does not match system (amd64)
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  libmpg123-0_1.10.0-2_i386.deb
>
> Now I am stumped. How do I install a i386 package on an amd64 machine?
>
> Mark
>
>


One extreme solution is to install  a complete i386 distribution on the
machine. If you don't have more than 4GB of memory you don't really need a
64bit OS. Or you could install everything in a 32 bit virtual machine.

Bill