32-Bit Chroot How-To

[vox]

Thanks for the howto Have one problem tho. When trying to run a 32bit app from within the 64bit environment, i get this error:

vox@Hagalaz:~$ vlc32
(breezy) cho /usr/local/bin/vlc32 | sed 's|^.*/||'
bash: cho: command not found

but if i run it from within the 32bit enviro, it works fine. What've i done wrong?

***Edit***

Gah ok. this was an issue with the joe editor. I'll go crawl back under my rock now..

[perfektion]

i don't find howto erase messeges.
so i cant erase this.
so i type is instad.

[puiphooey]

Hey nice FAQ. Maybe you want to add an addendum. If you want to do this with an ATI graphics card and use propreitary drivers, you have to add this to your do_dchroot:

#!/bin/sh

xhost + local:
/usr/bin/dchroot -d "`echo $0 | sed 's|^.*/||'` $*"

And if you want 3d Acceleration after making sure your /dev is mounted correctly, install (k/x)ubuntu-desktop through synaptic32.

[Duali]

I have followed the how-to almost trought, but when I try to install synaptic I get this:

teppo@kotikone:~$ sudo apt-get install synaptic
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.

Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  synaptic: Depends: libapt-pkg-libc6.3-5-3.9
            Depends: libfontconfig1 (>= 2.2.1) but it is not going to be installed
            Depends: libglade2-0 (>= 1:2.5.1) but it is not going to be installed
            Depends: libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.6.0) but it is not going to be installed
            Depends: libpango1.0-0 (>= 1.8.1) but it is not going to be installed
            Depends: libvte4 (>= 1:0.11.12) but it is not going to be installed
            Depends: libxft2 (> 2.1.1) but it is not going to be installed
            Depends: scrollkeeper but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages
teppo@kotikone:~$

Any ideas? Oh, and I have breezy installed so I have changed hoary -> breezy during the how-to

[puiphooey]

O and another nice addendum:

#!/bin/sh

xhost + local:

temp=`echo $0 | sed 's|^.*/||'`
command=`echo $temp | sed 's/32/ /'`

for arg; do
arg=`echo $arg | sed -e 's/ /\\\ /g'`
args=`echo $args $arg`
done

/usr/bin/dchroot -d "$command $args"

This verison doesn't require you to create another symlink in the chroot, something I found annoying.

[jtinel]

I have followed the how-to almost trought, but when I try to install synaptic I get this:

teppo@kotikone:~$ sudo apt-get install synaptic
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.

Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  synaptic: Depends: libapt-pkg-libc6.3-5-3.9
            Depends: libfontconfig1 (>= 2.2.1) but it is not going to be installed
            Depends: libglade2-0 (>= 1:2.5.1) but it is not going to be installed
            Depends: libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.6.0) but it is not going to be installed
            Depends: libpango1.0-0 (>= 1.8.1) but it is not going to be installed
            Depends: libvte4 (>= 1:0.11.12) but it is not going to be installed
            Depends: libxft2 (> 2.1.1) but it is not going to be installed
            Depends: scrollkeeper but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages
teppo@kotikone:~$

Any ideas? Oh, and I have breezy installed so I have changed hoary -> breezy during the how-to

Exact same problem here. I believe I have followed the instructions exactly, with the exception of changing hoary to breezy wherever it appeared.

Any suggestions are appreciated.
Thanks,
jt

[feight]

Having problems, to start, I'm running Breezy as well. I cannot get the chroot to install with or without changing hoary to breezy in the commands, in both cases, even after deleting and recreating the /chroot/ folder I get stuck at...

I: Checking component main on http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu...

for several several minutes.

EDIT: Nevermind, apparently I was more patient the last time I did this, not used to the lack of information on progress.

[feight]

Exact same problem here. I believe I have followed the instructions exactly, with the exception of changing hoary to breezy wherever it appeared.

Any suggestions are appreciated.
Thanks,
jt

I had the same problem as well, until I realized that at the step where you edit the chroot sources.list I didn't replace hoary with breezy.

[feight]

I have a 32bit chroot made up of breezy... only problem is, due to my want to trailblaze I've run into a snag. Firefox32 runs fine... but I can install the macromedia flash plugin a dozen times and restart the computer and it keeps insisting I don't have it and the flash movies don't run.

EDIT: Well, overlooking the obvious, I installed flashplayer-mozilla... long story short, problem solved. I just wish I knew why installing the application through firefox didn't work like it has the last few chroots I've attempted.

[!nkubus]

WOW that trick is really nice. You saved me, now I can play my games, flash sites, and quicktimes movies... well not aaaallll of them but a lot of them