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
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