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#3 Re: Running 32-bit Applications on 64-bit Debian GNU/Linux Posted by wuzzeb (64.5.xx.xx) on Tue 19 Jun 2007 at 09:35 Recent versions of the official wine packages from winehq.org have added a 64bit package for Ubuntu Feisty. (I use Ubuntu on my desktop computer, debian on the servers so I really only care about wine on my desktop...) It is compiled as a 32 bit binary, and depends on ia32-libs and lib32asound among others, but it is a amd64 package that is installed normally. http://www.winehq.org/site/download-deb I bet something like this for debian would be pretty easy to put together, and then even though wine is compiled as a 32bit application, you no longer need to care since it is installed as a normal amd64 package... Secondly, the best way I have found to get Flash is to use Swiftfox http://getswiftfox.com/ It is an optimized build of firefox (that part I don't really care about). The thing I care about is it is compiled to run out of a single directory anywhere on the filesystem. No need to mess with trying to get the 32bit debian package extracted when it wants to run out of /usr/ or whatever. They also have a 64bit download, which is compiled as a 32bit application. Be careful, they have two downloads "Athlon 64" and "Athlon 64 (32bit OS)" but the one you want is just "Athlon 64". At the top of the page it says... "All Swiftfox builds are 32-bit, including the AMD64 build." So download the manual package, extract it in /opt/swiftfox, install ia32-libs and ia32-libs-gtk, and run /opt/swiftfox/swiftfox. Then go to any page with flash, and download the plugin. Works like a charm, no need to play with chroots, VMs, trying to force 32bit packages to work, etc... John

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