FC13, Installing 32 bit Libs on a 64 bit box

[Phil Meyer]

On 06/03/2010 03:51 PM, mike cloaked wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 10:30 PM, Phil Meyer<pmeyer at themeyerfarm.com>  wrote:
>    
>> On 06/03/2010 10:33 AM, Jim wrote:
>>      
>>> FC13/KDE
>>>
>>> How do I install 32 bit Libs on a 64 bit box ?
>>>
>>> I have SDL installed.
>>>
>>> This would be a good addition to Yum.
>>>
>>>        
>> It would be much easier to discover why you might need some 32 bit
>> libraries.
>>
>> For instance, you mentioned SDL.  Is there an app you have that is not
>> in rpm format that requires 32 bit libs?
>>
>> Perhaps you have a 32 bit app in rpm format.
>>
>> Simply:
>>
>> # yum localinstall --nogpgcheck<myprog>.rpm
>>
>> That will install all of the appropriate 32 bit libs for that app.
>>
>> Much better than just trying to grab all 32 bit libs and hope it works ...
>>      
> If someone wants to run a nightly version of Thunderbird (say
> 3.1.1pre) in 64 bit F13 where the nightly builds are only for 32 bit -
> then it is not so easy!
>
> If you can give a one line command to pull in all the correct 32 bit
> libraries needed for that scenario I would be most interested in
> seeing it.
>
>    


Hehe, there is always a way :)

Here ya go!

rm -f /tmp/lister /tmp/lister1 ; for file in `ldd 
/usr/lib64/thunderbird-3.0/thunderbird-bin | awk '{print $1}'` ; do sudo 
yum whatprovides $file 2> /dev/null | egrep "i386|i686" >> /tmp/lister ; 
done ; sort -u -o /tmp/lister /tmp/lister ; awk '{print $1}' /tmp/lister 
 > /tmp/lister1 ; sudo yum install `cat /tmp/lister1`

It works, but adds some stuff not strictly necessary for running Tbird 
generically.  And, its not pretty! :)

Good luck!