On 10/8/06, Pierre Schmitz <pierre@archlinux.de> wrote:

Hi all,

some days ago I had to reinstall my Arch, so I decieded to give arch64 a try.
It`s working great and I think this will be the future of Arch.

But what I really missed is the ability to run 32bit-apps. I do not understand
why the devs do not want this. But as I did not want to discuss about this, I
just created some packages which allows me to start 32bit-apps within Arch64
(not using chroot etc.)

To make things very easy I did not set up a crosscompiler etc.. Instead I used
the packages from arch32. All libs are installed to /opt/lib32, so it wont
mess up your installation.

I set up a repository for testing:

[pierre]
Server = http://www.archlinux.de/~pierre/packages/x86_64

I got the following apps running:
* Doom3 (this requires: lib32-glibc, lib32-libx11, lib32-libxau,
lib32-libxdmcp, lib32-libxext, lib32-nvidia-utils, lib32-alsa-lib)
* Enemy-Territory
* Unreal Tournament
* Google Earth
* Opera (I only put it into the repository for demonstrating how it works)

What do you think about this?

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