Questions that refer to the capability of a system to install and run applications of multiple different binary targets on the same system. For example running a 32bit linux application on a 64bit linux system.
Questions tagged [multiarch]
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Skipping acquire of configured file 'main/binary-i386/Packages' as repository 'xxx' doesn't support architecture 'i386'
Getting below error message while issuing :
sudo apt-get update
Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease [95.8 kB]
Ign:2 http://repo.mongodb.org/apt/debian wheezy/mongodb-org/3.2 InRelease …
Scott Stensland
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What happened to the ia32-libs package?
The ia32-libs package is no longer present in Ubuntu 12.04 repositories for a 64bit system.
Are there any available replacement packages available for download?
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How can I switch a 32-bit installation to a 64-bit one?
I've got a 32-bit Ubuntu installation running on 64-bit hardware. Now that multi-arch has been implemented, I would like to switch to 64-bit without having to reinstall the OS.
This is one of the user stories addressed by the spec:
Shawn installed…
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How to disable multiarch support?
I don't want to install any i386 package.
Is there any way to disable functionality?
user27577
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Ubuntu 64 bit Machinarium: error while loading shared libraries: libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
I just downloaded Ubuntu 13.10 final beta 64 bit and every program that I use work flawlessly with the exception of "Machinarium" a very cool flash game. The game doesn't have a .deb package and I used to be able to play it before. I tried…
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gcc won't link with -m32
Trying to compile even the simplest (int main(){}) program with -m32 on a 64-bit system fails:
$ gcc -m32 test.c
/usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.8/libgcc.a when searching for -lgcc
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find…
Vladimir Panteleev
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Cannot install ia32-libs
I don't know why I can't install ia32-libs. It claims for a dependency that cannot be found on repos.
junior@mediacenter:~$ sudo apt-get install ia32-libs
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information...…
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errors upgrading from 14.04 to 16.04 about Unknown Multi-Arch type for compiz, libkf5akonadisearch-bin packages
I'm trying to upgrade my 14.04 machine to 16.04 using do-release-upgrade. After downloading the package lists for wily, I see the following errors:
Unknown Multi-Arch type 'no' for package 'compiz-core'
Unknown Multi-Arch type 'no' for package…
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Why does my 64-bit system look for 32-bit repos?
I've got a 64-bit 12.10 install on my Laptop. When running apt-get update, it downloads package lists for 32-bit packages (as well as source and 64-bit package lists). Why does it look for 32-bit package lists on a 64-bit system? I've included one…
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How do I install a 32-bit proprietary deb on a 64-bit system without causing dependency problems?
I know Guitar pro doesn't support 64 bit, but i did get it to work with this command
jeggy@jeggy-XPS:~$ sudo dpkg --force-architecture -i GuitarPro6-rev9063.deb
[sudo] password for jeggy:
Selecting previously unselected package…
Jeggy
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Can't run "dpkg --add-architecture i386" on 12.04 64-bit to run eclipse ADT
Running ubuntu 12.04 64 bit. I am trying to follow the steps written at the end of this page under the Heading: Installing Android SDK compat libraries. I am doing it in order to solve this problem.
But when I run the first command
sudo dpkg…
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How to run 32-bit programs on a 64-bit system
Recently I upgraded my netbook to Ubuntu 13.04 64-bit from Ubuntu 13.04 beta 2 32-bit.
I want to be able to run 32-bit programs (such as WPS, which is a clone of MS Office 2012) on my PC.
How do I do it? Is there an easy way of doing it via the…
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Why is synaptic downloading packages for both amd64 and i386?
I'm running Oneiric 64-bit, and since I've upgraded I notice Synaptic has split the repositories into 64-bit and 32-bit, but it's downloading archive lists for both of them, taking twice the time as before. Can anyone explain why this is and…
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How can I install both 32 and 64 bit versions of the same -dev package?
I'm trying to install libsqlite3-dev for both i386 and amd64 on the same Ubuntu 12.04 machine. I'm developing an application that uses sqlite3, and want to compile and test both the 32-bit and 64-bit versions.
However it looks like the…
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How do I fix a "Unknown configuration key `foreign-architecture' found in your `dpkg' configuration files." error?
Always when I install something, I get the following error multiple times:
Unknown configuration key 'foreign-architecture' found in your 'dpkg'
configuration files. This warning will become a hard error at a later
date, so please remove the…
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