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ia32-libs for Debian
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This package delivers a set of pre-compiled ia32 (ia32 family) shared
libraries, so that ia32 Linux applications can be executed on ia32
systems running Debian ia64 or amd64. This is a lame hack to solve
this problem for the Debian 3.1 (sarge) release, and should be
replaced or updated with a better solution for later releases.
The implementation of this package is adopted from amd64-libs which is
again adopted from the previous ia32-libs package. The previous
package was similar to the TurboLinux package of the same name
(ia32-libs) it was inspired by. We take a set of ia32 .deb's and
sources from the binary-i386 tree from http://ftp.debian.org/,
unpack them, and repackage them for delivery with a slightly changed
directory tree on the ia64/amd64 systems. Appropriate ldconfig calls
in the postinst script register the delivered libraries with the
dynamic loader. So, as long as all the shared libraries needed by the
application in question are included in this package, the application
should "just work" once this package is installed.
If more libraries are needed, file wishlist severity bugs against ia32-libs
in the Debian bug tracking system at bugs.debian.org and we'll try to oblige.
For a quick fix, you can download a suitable ia32 (i386 in Debian architecture
terms) binary package, unpack it with dpkg -X and move the required
libraries into /lib32 or /usr/lib32 as needed. Don't forget to run
ldconfig after adding new libs there.
Enjoy!
-- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@debian.org>, Mon Apr 11 16:21:42 2005
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