32-bit ActiveTcl on 64-bit Linux

Will Duquette

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Sep 5, 2014, 5:01:54 PM9/5/14

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Is it possible to install a 32-bit build of ActiveTcl on a 64-bit Linux machine? I've not Linux much in the last three years, but my memory is that you can run 32-bit software on 64-bit machines. Am I confused?

If I'm not, there's a problem with the latest ActiveTcl 8.6.1 for 32-bit linux, because it's not installing for me on a recent Ubuntu install.

Will Duquette

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Sep 5, 2014, 5:03:44 PM9/5/14

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On Friday, September 5, 2014 2:01:54 PM UTC-7, Will Duquette wrote:
> Is it possible to install a 32-bit build of ActiveTcl on a 64-bit Linux machine? I've not Linux much in the last three years, but my memory is that you can run 32-bit software on 64-bit machines. Am I confused?
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> If I'm not, there's a problem with the latest ActiveTcl 8.6.1 for 32-bit linux, because it's not installing for me on a recent Ubuntu install.

For the record, here's the error I'm seeing:

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Launching graphical installer on :0
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./payload/bin/wish8.6: error while loading shared libraries: libXft.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Alexandre Ferrieux

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Sep 5, 2014, 5:39:03 PM9/5/14

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On Friday, September 5, 2014 11:03:44 PM UTC+2, Will Duquette wrote:
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> > Is it possible to install a 32-bit build of ActiveTcl on a 64-bit Linux machine? I've not Linux much in the last three years, but my memory is that you can run 32-bit software on 64-bit machines. Am I confused?
>

Dunno if this applies to Ubuntu, but on Debian this compatibility is achieved through the libc6-i386 package. Do you have it (or its equivalent) ?

-Alex

Will Duquette

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Sep 5, 2014, 5:55:19 PM9/5/14

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I have no idea. I'm running Ubuntu as a VM on VirtualBox; a friend of mine created the machine for me to do some testing on. The app I'm testing, which I've built as a 32-bit linux starpack, appears to be running just fine, FWIW.

Peter Dean

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Sep 5, 2014, 6:06:37 PM9/5/14

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On 06/09/14 07:01, Will Duquette wrote:
> Is it possible to install a 32-bit build of ActiveTcl on a 64-bit Linux machine? I've not Linux much in the last three years, but my memory is that you can run 32-bit software on 64-bit machines. Am I confused?
>
> If I'm not, there's a problem with the latest ActiveTcl 8.6.1 for 32-bit linux, because it's not installing for me on a recent Ubuntu install.
>

Could this help?
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MultiArch

And for Arch Linux
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/multilib

Ian Gay

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Sep 5, 2014, 7:02:27 PM9/5/14

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Maybe you have only the 64-bit version of that library on your system.
Can you install the 32-bit one also? (On opensuse, which I use, this is
certainly possible.)

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Will Duquette

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Sep 5, 2014, 7:20:18 PM9/5/14

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On Friday, September 5, 2014 3:06:37 PM UTC-7, Peter Dean wrote:
> On 06/09/14 07:01, Will Duquette wrote:
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> > Is it possible to install a 32-bit build of ActiveTcl on a 64-bit Linux machine? I've not Linux much in the last three years, but my memory is that you can run 32-bit software on 64-bit machines. Am I confused?
>
> >
>
> > If I'm not, there's a problem with the latest ActiveTcl 8.6.1 for 32-bit linux, because it's not installing for me on a recent Ubuntu install.
>
> >
>
> Could this help?
>
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MultiArch

Possibly, though it seems somewhat out of date relative to the version of Ubuntu that I'm using. I'll check with my local expert.

Robert Heller

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Sep 5, 2014, 8:30:57 PM9/5/14

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At Fri, 5 Sep 2014 14:01:52 -0700 (PDT) Will Duquette <wi...@wjduquette.com> wrote:

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> Is it possible to install a 32-bit build of ActiveTcl on a 64-bit Linux
> machine? I've not Linux much in the last three years, but my memory is that
> you can run 32-bit software on 64-bit machines. Am I confused?

It is *IF* you install the 32-bit libraries.

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> If I'm not, there's a problem with the latest ActiveTcl 8.6.1 for 32-bit
> linux, because it's not installing for me on a recent Ubuntu install.

Most recent Linux distros don't do a 'mixed' install -- that is they don't
install the 32-bit libraries on a 64-bit install *by default*. The
*presumption* is that *everything* has been ported to 64-bit. You can still
install the 32-bit libraries, but you have to do so manually.

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