Installing 32-bit Support into 64-bit Fedora | Linux Today

Installing 32-bit Support into 64-bit Fedora

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Sep 9, 2009

[ Thanks to Andrew
Weber
for this link. ]

“For 64-bit Ubuntu, finding the proper 32-bit support packages
is a simple matter of opening up the Synaptic Package Manager, and
searching for the string ‘ia32’. With 64-bit openSuSE, 32-bit
support is already built-in, so you don’t have to do anything. With
Fedora, though, it’s a whole different story. Not only are the
32-bit packages not already installed, the Fedora folk don’t
provide any documentation on how to install them. The directions I
found via Google were outdated, and wouldn’t work. I finally
resolved the problem by asking a Red Hat employee in my local Linux
Users Group.”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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