On Monday 28 June 2010 12:51:28 ha...@softhome.net wrote: > I am having trouble figuring out what the right way to install i386 > packages on AMD64 Sid is. Specifically, I need to install some 32-bit dev > packages so I can compile Wine. (for regression testing) I have ia32-libs > installed, but it doesn't contain the development packages I need. > > The Wine wiki tells me to use ia32-apt-get. I do not have ia32-apt-get > installed, and apt-get tells me there is no installation candidate. I > can't find it on packages.debian.org
I'm not sure if it will work for Wine, but I've started using virtualization for almost all of my 32-bit needs. There's a "virtualbox-ose" package in Debian "lenny", it works, and it's almost trivial to set up a VM. The one place it doesn't work is for hosting a 32-bit browser on a 64-bit base system -- or rather, I haven't figured it out, since the VirtualBox documentation has some discussion of shared files. (I want my bookmarks preserved, and downloads to go somewhere where I can find/use them.) For regression testing of most things, it would be fine, but Wine is likely to require low-level access to the hardware, so it might not be as good for that, hence my earlier hesitation. -- A. -- Andrew Reid / rei...@bellatlantic.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201006291546.45704.rei...@bellatlantic.net