How to install ia32-libs in Ubuntu 14 04 LTS Trusty Tahr

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I installed Ubuntu 14 04  Trusty Tahr  yesterday  Everything seems OK  But when I tried to compile some C code  I encounter the following error  The error seems to be due to the OS lacking the 32-bit architecture support  The error output is as following    usr bin ld  i386 architecture of input file    libsc a ftl msg o   is incompatible with i386 x86-64 output  usr bin ld  i386 architecture of input file    libsc a libsc debug o   is incompatible with i386 x86-64 output  usr bin ld  i386 architecture of input file    libsc a libsc str o   is incompatible with i386 x86-64 output  usr bin ld  i386 architecture of input file    libsc a libsc cfg common o   is incompatible with i386 x86-64 output   I used to apt-get install ia32-libs when I was using Ubuntu nbsp 12 04  Precise Pangolin   But what I know is that Ubuntu has removed the ia32-libs since Ubuntu nbsp 13 10  Saucy Salamander   How can I fix this problem

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The best answer I have ever seen is How to run 32-bit applications on Ubuntu 64-bit   sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386 sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install libc6 i386 libncurses5 i386 libstdc  6 i386 sudo   adb

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Simply install the 32-bit version of the program  instead of the 64-bit version   This is much safer than installing packages that are not intended for the distribution at hand   I got this suggestion from the Google Earth installation instructions for Ubuntu 14 04  Google Earth used to employ ia32-libs under 64-bit Ubuntu 12 04   Quoting webupd8 org      The ia32-libs package is no longer available in Ubuntu  starting with   Ubuntu 13 10  The package was superseded by multiarch support so you   don t need it any more  but some 64bit packages  which are actually   32bit applications  still depend on this package and because of this    they can t be installed in Ubuntu 14 04 or 13 10  64bit             The  fix  or more specifically the correct way of installing these   apps which depend on ia32-libs is to simply install the 32bit package   on Ubuntu 64bit  Of course  that will install quite a few 32bit   packages  but that s how multiarch works    The problem with some programs  like Google Earth  is that the 32-bit package does not support multiarch  Consequently  some 32-bit dependencies need to be installed manually to make the 32-bit version of the program run on Ubuntu 64-bit   sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386   only needed once sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install libfontconfig1 i386 libx11-6 i386 libxrender1 i386 libxext6 i386 libgl1-mesa-glx i386 libglu1-mesa i386 libglib2 0-0 i386 libsm6 i386

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A solution is add the corresponding Debian package way to your repository  For this  type the below commands   echo  deb ftp us debian org debian wheezy main   gt  gt   etc apt sources list sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install ia32-libs-i386   The first line writes in the end of the sources list file the package way  This works for me  I wish that helps you

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The problem is that in many cases the packages are multiarch already so the i386 package is not available  but other packages still depend on the i386 package only  This is a problem in the repository  and the managers of the repos should fix it

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Install gcc multiple library   sudo apt-get install gcc-multilib

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For me  I have to run  sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386   before running Mike Tang s answer  Otherwise  I can t install ia32-libs

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You can try this to install the 32-bit library  not all in ia32-libs     sudo  apt-get install program i386   sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386 may be required  if you haven t ever run that      Or if you want to install the whole ia32-lib instead  try the following order   sudo -i cd  etc apt sources list d echo  deb http   old-releases ubuntu com ubuntu  raring main restricted universe multiverse   gt ia32-libs-raring list apt-get update apt-get install ia32-libs     PS  In this way  you can install ia32-libs  However  we add the source of 13 04 instead  so  there may be some unknown problem  After installing ia32-libs  I recommend you to remove the ia32-libs-raring list in  etc apt sources list d  and do sudo apt-get update     If you want to fix the dependency of Android SDK  you can try this bellow   sudo apt-get install -y libc6-i386 lib32stdc  6 lib32gcc1 lib32ncurses5 lib32z1

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sudo -i cd  etc apt sources list d echo  deb http   archive ubuntu com ubuntu  precise main restricted universe multiverse   gt ia32-libs-raring list apt-get update apt-get install ia32-libs rm  etc apt sources list d ia32-libs-raring list apt-get update exit   If you are in China  you can modify  raring  to  precise   for Ubuntu nbsp 13 04  Raring Ringtail  and Ubuntu nbsp 12 04 LTS  Precise Pangolin   respectively   I installed Beyond Compare on Ubuntu nbsp 14 04  Trusty Tahr

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I had the same problem as above and Eclipse suggested installing   Hint  On 64-bit systems  make sure the 32-bit libraries are installed         sudo apt-get install ia32-libs      or on some systems        sudo apt-get install lib32z1       When I tried to install ia32-libs  Ubuntu prompted to install three other packages     sudo apt-get install ia32-libs   Reading package lists    Done   Building dependency tree          Reading state information    Done   Package ia32-libs is not available  but is referred to by another package    This may mean that the package is missing  has been obsoleted  or   is only available from another source   However the following packages replace it      lib32z1 lib32ncurses5 lib32bz2-1 0    E  Package  ia32-libs  has no installation candidate          sudo apt-get install lib32z1 lib32ncurses5 lib32bz2-1 0       With Android Studio and intellij  I also had to install the 32bit version of libstdc  6   sudo apt-get install lib32stdc  6

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These alternative libraries worked for me   sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install lib32z1 lib32ncurses5 lib32bz2-1 0 lib32stdc  6

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I got it finally  Here is my way  and I hope it can help you     sudo apt-get install libc6 i386 sudo -i cd  etc apt sources list d echo  deb http   old-releases ubuntu com ubuntu  raring main restricted universe multiverse   gt ia32-libs-raring list apt-get update apt-get install ia32-libs rm  etc apt sources list d ia32-libs-raring list apt-get update exit sudo apt-get install gcc-multilib   I don t know the reason why I need to install these  but it works on my computer  When you finish installing these packages  it s time to try  Oh yes  I need to tell you  This time when you want to compile your code  you should add -m32 after gcc  for example  gcc -m32 -o hello helloworld c  Just make clean and make again  Good luck friends   PS  my environment is  Ubuntu 14 04 64-bit  Trusty Tahr  and GCC version 4 8 4  I have written the solution in my blog  but it is in Chinese  -  - How to compass 32bit programm under ubuntu14 04

[ubuntu] How to install ia32-libs in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr)

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