[CS-FSLUG] Installing ia32-libs-gtk

[David McGlone]

On Friday 13 April 2007 5:20 pm, Stephen J. McCracken wrote:
> > I need to install the ia32-libs-gtk package, but adept package manager
> > will not let me mark it to be installed.
>
> [snip]
>
> > dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of ia32-libs-gtk:
>
> [snip]
>
> > What I am trying to accomplish here is getting flash to work on my x86_64
>
> [snip]
>
> > This is weird to me because:
> > david at lappy:~$ whereis libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
> > libgtk-x11-2.0.so: /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
>
> It's not the answer you want, but I have seen similar problems with a
> different package on a SUSE install I had once.  The problem was the
> x86_64 64bit install.  It seemed like the 64bit stuff wasn't recognizing
> the 32bit libraries or such.  I gave up and reinstalled the machine as a
> 32bit machine (x86) and all worked well.

I hope it doesn't come down to that. I wouldn't want to wasted a good 
processor.