CentOS 64 bit bad ELF interpreter

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I have just installed CentOS 6 64bit version  I m trying to install a 32-bit application on a 64-bit machine and got this error       lib ld-linux so 2  bad ELF interpreter  No such file or directory   I m new to linux   How do I resolve this

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Just wanted to add a comment in BRPocock, but I don't have the sufficient privilegies.

So my contribution was for everyone trying to install IBM Integration Toolkit from IBM's Integration Bus bundle.

When you try to run "Installation Manager" command from folder /Integration_Toolkit/IM_Linux (the file to run is "install") you get the error showed in this post.

Further instructions to fix this problem you'll find in this IBM's web page: https://www-304.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21459143

Hope this helps for anybody trying to install that.

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You re on a 64-bit system  and don t have 32-bit library support installed   To install  baseline  support for 32-bit executables   if you don t use sudo in your setup read note below    Most desktop Linux systems in the Fedora Red Hat family    pkcon install glibc i686   Possibly some desktop Debian Ubuntu systems    pkcon install ia32-libs   Fedora or newer Red Hat  CentOS    sudo dnf install glibc i686   Older RHEL  CentOS      sudo yum install glibc i686   Even older RHEL  CentOS     sudo yum install glibc i386   Debian or Ubuntu      sudo apt-get install ia32-libs   should grab you the  first  main  library you need   Once you have that  you ll probably need support libs  Anyone needing to install glibc i686 or glibc i386 will probably run into other library dependencies  as well  To identify a package providing an arbitrary library  you can use   ldd  usr bin YOURAPPHERE   if you re not sure it s in  usr bin you can also fall back on   ldd   which YOURAPPNAME    The output will look like this       linux-gate so 1   gt    0xf7760000      libpthread so 0   gt   lib libpthread so 0  0xf773e000      libSM so 6   gt  not found   Check for missing libraries  e g  libSM so 6 in the above output   and for each one you need to find the package that provides it   Commands to find the package per distribution family  Fedora Red Hat Enterprise CentOS    dnf provides  usr lib libSM so 6   or  on older RHEL CentOS    yum provides  usr lib libSM so 6   or  on Debian Ubuntu   first  install and download the database for apt-file   sudo apt-get install apt-file  amp  amp  apt-file update   then search with   apt-file find libSM so 6   Note the prefix path  usr lib in the  usual  case  rarely  some libraries still live under  lib for historical reasons     On typical 64-bit systems  32-bit libraries live in  usr lib and 64-bit libraries live in  usr lib64    Debian Ubuntu organise multi-architecture libraries differently    Installing packages for missing libraries  The above should give you a package name  e g    libSM-1 2 0-2 fc15 i686   X Org X11 SM runtime library Repo          fedora Matched from  Filename       usr lib libSM so 6   In this example the name of the package is libSM and the name of the 32bit version of the package is libSM i686   You can then install the package to grab the requisite library using pkcon in a GUI  or sudo dnf yum apt-get as appropriate     E g pkcon install libSM i686  If necessary you can specify the version fully  E g sudo dnf install ibSM-1 2 0-2 fc15 i686   Some libraries will have an    epoch    designator before their name  this can be omitted  the curious can read the notes below    Notes  Warning  Incidentially  the issue you are facing either implies that your RPM  resp  DPkg DSelect  database is corrupted  or that the application you re trying to run wasn t installed through the package manager  If you re new to Linux  you probably want to avoid using software from sources other than your package manager  whenever possible     If you don t use  sudo  in your set-up  Type  su -c   every time you see sudo  eg   su -c dnf install glibc i686   About the epoch designator in library names  The    epoch    designator before the name is an artifact of the way that the underlying RPM libraries handle version numbers  e g    2 libpng-1 2 46-1 fc16 i686   A library of functions for manipulating PNG image format files Repo          fedora Matched from  Filename       usr lib libpng so 3   Here  the 2  can be omitted  just pkcon install libpng i686 or sudo dnf install libpng-1 2 46-1 fc16 i686   It vaguely implies something like  at some point  the version number of the libpng package rolled backwards  and the    epoch    had to be incremented to make sure the newer version would be considered    newer    during updates  Or something similar happened  Twice      Updated to clarify and cover the various package manager options more fully  March  2016

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sudo yum install fontconfig freetype libfreetype so 6 libfontconfig so 1 libstdc   so 6

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I would add for Debian you need at least one compiler in the system  according to Debian Stretch and Jessie 32-bit libraries     I installed apt-get install -y gcc-multilib in order to run 32-bit executable file in my docker container based on debian jessie

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Just came across the same problem on a freshly installed CentOS 6 4 64-bit machine  A single yum command will fix this plus 99  of similar problems   yum groupinstall  Compatibility libraries   Either prefix this with  sudo  or run as root  whichever works best for you

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In general  when you get an error like this  just do  yum provides ld-linux so 2   then you ll see something like   glibc-2 20-5 fc21 i686   The GNU libc libraries Repo          fedora Matched from  Provides      ld-linux so 2   and then you just run the following like BRPocock wrote  in case you were wondering what the logic was       yum install glibc i686

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You can also install OpenJDK 32-bit   i686  instead  According to my test  it will be installed and works without problems   sudo yum install java-1 8 0-openjdk i686   Note      The java-1 8 0-openjdk package contains just the Java Runtime Environment  If you want to develop Java programs then install the java-1 8 0-openjdk-devel package    See here for more details

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Try    yum provides ld-linux so 2   yum update   yum install glibc i686 libfreetype so 6 libfontconfig so 1 libstdc   so 6   Hope this clears out

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