Running an old 32 bit app on AMD64

[Gary Hodges]

On 1/4/07, Gary Hodges <fsunoles at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a program I'm trying to get to run on an AMD64 6.10 machine.  I
> have an rpm of the program.  In the past I've successfully used alien
> to install said program, but I'm not getting it done on the AMD64
> machine.
>
> If I try to install an alien created deb file (created on another
> machine), it works with --force-architecture but I get this error when
> I try to run it:
>
> "error while loading shared libraries: libncurses.so.5: cannot open
> shared object file: No such file or directory"
>
> I have libncurses5 and libncurses5-dev installed .  If I try to create
> a deb file with alien on the AMD64 machine I get these errors:
>
> dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: unable to find dependency information for
> shared library libpam (soname 0, path libpam.so.0, dependency field
==some deletion==
> All he above packages are installed.

I was able to install the program using chroot.  I followed these directions:
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=24575&highlight=32-bit+chroot