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Subject: Command not found? How can this be?
From: bovineb...@gmail.com
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I have an excutable delivered to my company. Call it dosomething.

I run 

./dosomething 

and I get

./dosomething: command not found

bizarre..... I tried this on two x86_64 machines, and then decided to run it on my netbook running i686 knoppix running from a usb stick.

It turns out that the executable is 32bit and can't run on 64 bit. But why? How can I fix this? Is it missing some library or something?