On 05/20/2010 06:03 PM, Mike Connors wrote: >> >> How the heck do I tell aptitude to install the >> i386 version of the libmysqlclient-dev? >> > > AFIK this isn't possible as any "package manager" is going to download > packages per the results of a "uname" query. You could find and download the > .deb file for your version of Debian => > http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=libmysqlclient-dev > > and then use "dpkg -i" to install it. > > HTH!
I don't know that this is always true. In 64-bit gentoo you can certainly install 32-bit programs if you have the appropriate 32-bit libraries to link with. Is there no /lib32 directory in Debian Squeeze? Another option: build a 32-bit chroot. Carlos _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
