On Tue, Nov 03, 2009 at 05:46:27PM +0530, Jatin K wrote: > Ok , I have find this [a] by googling > > [a] > --------------------------- > > For 64-bit Ubuntu, finding the proper 32-bit support packages is a > simple matter of opening up the Synaptic Package Manager, and > searching for the string “ia32”. With 64-bit openSuSE, 32-bit > support is already built-in, so you don’t have to do anything. With > Fedora, though, it’s a whole different story. Not only are the > 32-bit packages not already installed, the Fedora folk don’t provide > any documentation on how to install them. The directions I found via > Google were outdated, and wouldn’t work. I finally resolved the > problem by asking a Red Hat employee in my local Linux Users Group. [...snip...] I'm not reprinting the rest of this because it's flat out wrong. Ubuntu's 32-bit support on 64-bit platforms is pretty cracktastic if you ask me. In Fedora, you don't need to do anything specific for 32-bit library support -- yum handles it all thanks to multilib support, and has for quite a long time. Bad, outdated advice is actually worse than no advice at all. If you found this page[1] then you'll notice my comment in the comments section where I corrected the wrong advice. If you're installing a 32-bit application via yum for some reason, such as 'yum install newprogram.i586' (or newprogram.i686 in Fedora 12 or beyond), the 32-bit libraries will be brought down. If you're installing an RPM you get from somewhere outside a yum repository, you can do 'yum localinstall newpackage-1.0.i586.rpm' to do the same thing. If the application still has problems and complains about a missing library, it's a bad packaging job by the vendor, not Fedora at fault. You can often find the problem by reading the error output. If you get a message that says something like "Can't open library /usr/lib/libfoo.so.1", you can look it up with yum and install it yourself, with 'yum install /usr/lib/libfoo.so.1'. -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
