Can not install 32 bit programs in Ubuntu 64?

[jkarpago]

Hi:
I have installed Ubuntu64 today but I find some problems that did not like me.
The problems are with some programs I could not use and with the sources.list IU use before.

I try to install xawdecode ( xdtv ) through apt but I fails in all the lines that I added to sources.list, and this lines are correct because I try in a 32 bit Ubuntu and they worked.

I could not install avidemux , or flash.

So, I wonder, am I useless user or simply those programs not work and I must install ubuntu 32 to use them?

[dbcoder]

You need to have an installation of ubuntu 32 to run 32 bit applications

[Gibbz]

so would that mean the only decent game playable on 64bit linux would be ut2k4? i havent seen many 64bit games or apps, is it not possible like with winxp64bit to run 32bit apps if you had some of the right p[akages installed?

[dbcoder]

Suse 9.2 64-bit has 32 bit emulation!

[BoyOfDestiny]

You need to have an installation of ubuntu 32 to run 32 bit applications
Open Office is 32-bit, doesn't compile under 64-bit (AFAIK)...so it means 32-bit apps can be run since ubuntu amd64 has it. Anyone care to shed some light on the tricks needed to install and run these apps. Might be handy if ia32 emulation lib can do the job, vs chrooting for a few apps?

[Ribs]

Open Office is 32-bit, doesn't compile under 64-bit (AFAIK)...so it means 32-bit apps can be run since ubuntu amd64 has it. Anyone care to shed some light on the tricks needed to install and run these apps. Might be handy if ia32 emulation lib can do the job, vs chrooting for a few apps?

in the case of OpenOffice, a library is supplied by the Ubuntu team to emulate the 32-bit calls it makes. It's called ia32-libs-openoffice.org. Check synaptic for it and you should see it's installed.

Gentoo supplies users with really good ia32 libraries which make using a chroot pretty much redundant. It's a crying shame Ubuntu doesn't do the same thing really, it would be things a lot more simple. They supply one ia32 library other than the openoffice one, but that's not good enough for my needs, sadly.

I am wondering if it's possible to create ia32 packages myself and use those... :-k

-Ribs.

[soloha]

I've been just downloading the 32bit libs I need (using command ldd on 32 binaries to find out which) from packages.ubuntu.com, using the archive manager to extract the libs and sticking them in /usr/lib32 and this has worked for me.

[asdf25]

If you hadn't noticed, this thread is over two years old, and things have changed a lot since then.

[starcannon]

Things haven't changed enough, I'm getting the old cedega error on an install of Ubuntu 64 that I downloaded and installed just today.