Questions tagged [multiarch]

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What does it take to run 64-bit userland software on a 32-bit kernel?

On Linux and Windows, I'm used to the situation that I require a 64-bit kernel to have a system with multiarch/WoW where I can run 32-bit and 64-bit software side-by-side. And then, years ago it blew my mind when someone showed me that MacOS 10.6…
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Running a 32-bit application in Debian Wheezy 64 bits: Missing libraries

I want to play the game Aquaria in a Debian Wheezy 64 bits. The installation went ok, but when trying to play the game I get these errors: ALSA lib conf.c:3314:(snd_config_hooks_call) Cannot open shared library libasound_module_conf_pulse.so ALSA…
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E: Unable to locate package libssl-dev when trying to download 32bit OpenSSL on 64bit system

I'm trying to compile multiarch project the right (means reproducible) way, so I decided to install all libraries through apt-get. But ever since the system noticed what I'm doing, it became hostile. While many people claim that you can install…
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Backtrace of "git clone" running inside qemu-user-emulation based arm-chroot

I'm running a wheezy:armhf chroot using qemu user emulation on my jessie:x86_64 system. Somehow, a git clone on a particular private repository will hang inside the chroot, while succeed natively. This might be a bug, who knows? To improve my karma,…
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Multilib and Multiarch

Multilib and Multiarch: Are these two term just synonym ? If no, how they differ ? If I want to run 32-bit and 64-bit application in same system then shall I call it Multiarch or Multilib ?
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Kernel architecture vs OS architecture

What is the difference between the kernel architecture and the OS architecture? Which of these is relevant when trying to figure out which architecture to compile binaries for? From what I have read, it is possible to install a 64 bit kernel despite…
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OpenJDK7 JRE 32-bit on Debian Stretch 64-bit

I am currently using Debian Stretch (testing, at the moment). I need to install Java 7 32-bit to be able to work with an old applet that is only compatible with that specific version: No 64-bit, no Java 8 (please don't judge me). There's currently…
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Why can't I install multiple both x86 and x86_64 versions of a library side by side?

Edited output: # apt-get install librados2:amd64 librados2:i386 The following packages have unmet dependencies: librados2:amd64 : Conflicts: librados2 but 0.80.7-2+deb8u1 is to be installed librados2 : Conflicts: librados2:amd64 but…
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Is there a general way of building 32bit projects on 64bit system?

I have a project that is supposed to run on all following platforms: Win x86 Win x64 Linux (Debian) x86 Linux (Debian) x64 I'm finish with windows and Linux x64 compiled although I'm not sure it works. There's one platform missing and that's Linux…
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How to convince APT that a cross-arch package is installed manually?

I have a qemu-armhf chroot environment on an amd64 machine (it's mainly for compiling Raspberry Pi code). As such it can run both armhf and amd64 binaries but it's faster doing the latter. There are certain packages (such as make) where I've…
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Is i386 multiarch support broken on amd64 Debian Sid?

I am currently experiencing issues with Debian Sid. My architecture is amd64 (x86-64). If I want to install a i386 package and run the following commands: # dpkg -add-architecture i386 # sudo apt-get update ... the i386 packages are retrieved…
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apt-rdepends does not show multiarch information

I'm using apt-rdepends on an amd64 system with i386 as a foreign architecture. But it seems that apt-rdepends loses the architecture information of packages: $ apt-rdepends libgcc1:i386 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree …
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Set up environment for cross-compilation to i386, armel, armhf, arm64 and mips with no libglib2 conflicts

I'm trying to set up a build environment for a software package in Debian Jessie. I need to produce amd64, i386 and eventually armel and armhf binaries of the software. It would be cool if I could cross-compile it to ALL of the architectures…
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Having nVidia OpenGL 32bit driver on a 64bit Debian system in multiarch

I'm trying to install 32 bit nVidia drivers on my 64-bit system (to get wine working with OpenGL). So I tried: root@grzes:/lib# aptitude install libgl1-nvidia-glx:i386 libxvmcnvidia1:i386 The following NEW packages will be…
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ERROR: multiple platforms feature is currently not supported for docker driver. Please switch to a different driver (eg. "docker buildx create --use")

using docker command buildx build --platform=linux/arm64,linux/amd64 after latest updates may cause error: ERROR: multiple platforms feature is currently not supported for docker driver. Please switch to a different driver (eg. "docker buildx create…
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