[Ltsp-discuss] 32bit libraries on 64bit fat clients

[Michael Crider - HOEC]

We are running 64bit fat clients with Ubuntu 16.04, tied to a server
with the same architecture and OS. We have a 32bit application that
needs a handful of 32bit libraries to run. On a normal desktop install I
could do "apt install libpangoxft-1.0-0:i386" for example, and it would
install. The fat clients always say the package is not available. Is
there a way to make these available in fat clients?

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[Vagrant Cascadian]

Post by Michael Crider - HOEC
We are running 64bit fat clients with Ubuntu 16.04, tied to a server
with the same architecture and OS. We have a 32bit application that
needs a handful of 32bit libraries to run. On a normal desktop install I
could do "apt install libpangoxft-1.0-0:i386" for example, and it would
install. The fat clients always say the package is not available. Is
there a way to make these available in fat clients?

You probably need to do something like the following to your fat client
chroot:

dpkg --add-architecture i386

Or use the LTSP-PNP style of building LTSP images without chroots:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/ltsp-pnp

LTSP-PNP buils the images out of the server installation, so you simply
configure the server the way you want the fat clients, and then build an
image from that.


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