Trouble with 32 bit Gtk app on 64 bit system - no or misleading error msgs

[Evan]

On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 1:29 AM, Scott Beamer
<geekboy at angrykeyboarder.com>wrote:

> Thomas Tempelmann spake thusly:
>
> >... I've created a 32 bit application that uses Gtk 2, which
> > launches fine on the 32 Bit Ubuntu 9.10 default installation.
> >
> > But when I launch the same app on the 64 bit Ubuntu version, the
> > following things happen......
>
> [...]
>
> The problem is that Debian (and therfore Ubuntu) is still in the 20th
> century when it comes to easily installing and running 32-bit software
> beside 64-bit software.
>
> Outiside of sticking with OS X (or Windows for that matter) your other
> alterntiave is to go with the more advanced RPM-based distributions where
> you can routinely install 32-bit packages on a 64-bit OS (examples of
> such operating systems include Fedora, openSUSE and Mandriva).
>
> *Someday* Debian (and therefore Ubuntu) will catch up....
>

I don't mean to be a "[citation needed] troll", but I've honestly never
heard anything suggesting this before. Would you mind explaining how RPMs
handle 32/64 better than DEBs? My understanding was that as long as you
installed ia32-libs then you shouldn't have to do anything else; the
software having problems in this thread is some sort of anomaly.

Cheers,
Evan
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