getlibs: Automatically solves dependencies for binaries

[cappy]

On Mon, 2007-08-13 at 12:24 +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> * 
> 
> | It works by retrieving the package list from http://packages.ubuntu.com
> | for a missing library, finding the package name, downloading the i386
> | package, extracting that package, and then moving all libraries over to
> | /lib32 or /usr/lib32.
> | The sh script can be viewed here:
> | http://www.boundlesssupremacy.com/Cappy/getlibs/getlibs
> 
> Are you aware of auto-apt?  If so, how does your script differ from
> auto-apt?
> 
> -- 
> Tollef Fog Heen
> UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are
> 

Most importantly, getlibs provides the ability for 64-bit users to install 
32-bit libraries (by using the package web interface instead of apt). There 
are examples of getlibs in use here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=474790

If a 64-bit user needs to run a 32-bit binary they can 
"getlibs /path/to/binary" or "getlibs -32 32bitlibraryname.so.0" to
download and install 32-bit libraries. It is less useful for a 32-bit
user since, as you mentioned, they can use auto-apt (which is actually more powerful 
because it looks like it can detect dependencies that aren't found by ldd).