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#1 (**permalink**) 01-19-2008, 07:57 AM

On many Linux distros, the package manager can be a bear for 64-bit
users trying to add 32-bit packages. If you want something requiring
lots of dependencies, it's likely you'll have to resolve them manually.

How about Debian? When running 64-bit, can apt-get be told to grab, say,
32-bit firefox, flash-plugin, gxine, codecs, etc., as a group? If not,
is there some other sane means?

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#2 (**permalink**) 01-19-2008, 07:57 AM

Ed Hurst wrote:
> On many Linux distros, the package manager can be a bear for 64-bit
> users trying to add 32-bit packages. If you want something requiring
> lots of dependencies, it's likely you'll have to resolve them
> manually.
>
> How about Debian? When running 64-bit, can apt-get be told to grab,
> say, 32-bit firefox, flash-plugin, gxine, codecs, etc., as a group? If
> not, is there some other sane means?

Currently the way to do this is to install a 32-bit system in a chroot
environment using bind mounts to access /home /tmp /dev and other
shared dirs.

There is a fairly useable guide how to this here

https://alioth.debian.org/docman/vie...d64-howto.html

There are plans for so called multiarch support which would allow
installing 32-bit Debian packages alongside 64-bit ones. This will
probably happen only after Etch however.

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