On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 5:21 PM, Carlos Konstanski < [email protected]> wrote:
> 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? > I have a /lib32, so I assume I can somehow install an i386 package. I just don't know how. I thought of dpkg -i, with the right deb, but I wantted to make sure it wouldn't screw up anything. > > Another option: build a 32-bit chroot. > I have no idea how to do that. > > Carlos > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
