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#2 Re: Using proprietary i386 apps on an amd64 system Posted by dkg (216.254.xx.xx) on Thu 14 Jun 2007 at 16:45 Good idea! i'd never used this before, so i looked into it. As root, i did: apt-get install apt-file apt-file update Now i can do requests as a regular user: 0 dkg@lemur:~$ apt-file --architecture i386 search libodbc.so.1 unixodbc: usr/lib/libodbc.so.1 unixodbc: usr/lib/libodbc.so.1 unixodbc: usr/lib/libodbc.so.1.0.0 unixodbc: usr/lib/libodbc.so.1.0.0 0 dkg@lemur:~$ If you suspect that you already have the package installed as a native 64-bit library, you could also use dpkg -S filename or dlocate filename to suss out the owning package. One of the big advantages of the web interface is that it's a couple clicks away from a download of the package itself (and links to its dependencies). Do you know of a way to coax apt-file into downloading the package (and its dependencies?) from the command line? I think that would be ideal.

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