[arch-ports] Solution for 32bit/multilib-problem

[Nicholai Grønvald Hsu]

Hi there,

I think it's a great idea. There is a few 'blockbuster' programs that
keeps me from running arch64 full time (Java and flash plugin and
Skype). I find this solution much cleaner than having to maintain an
complete 32-bit arch linux for chroot.

Cheers,

Nicholai

Just my thought
On 02:51 Mon 09 Oct     , Robert Howard wrote:
>    Thanks. I'll probably make use of these packages in the near future.
> 
>    On 10/8/06, Pierre Schmitz <[1]pierre at 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 = [2]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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> 
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> References
> 
>    Visible links
>    1. mailto:pierre at archlinux.de
>    2. http://www.archlinux.de/~pierre/packages/x86_64
>    3. http://www.archlinux.de/
>    4. mailto:arch-ports at archlinux.org
>    5. http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch-ports
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