installing 32bit debs in 64bit environtment

[Alexandra Zaharia]

On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 3:47 PM, Tomoki Taniguchi
<tomoki.taniguchi at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a 64bit gutsy server running.
>  I want to run a 3rd party program (bitdefender) which only provides a
>  32bit deb package.
>
>  i was reading this page
>  https://help.ubuntu.com/community/32bit_and_64bit?highlight=%2832bit%29
>
>  and installed ia32-libs thinking this will let me install the 32bit pacakage.
>  but i am still getting the following errors
>  <snip>
>  dpkg: error processing BitDefender-scanner-7.5-4.i586.deb (--install):
>   package architecture (i386) does not match system (amd64)
>  <snip>
>
>  is there a way to get this to install?

AFAIK, not without having a 32b system chroot-ed in your 64b
environment... If a package you're trying to install does not support
amd64 (and also doesn't provide an amd64 version) - it will fail to
install no matter what you'd do excepting the fact when you'd be
running it from a chroot (and from there, you should be able to scan
everything under / and not necessarily under /var/chroot - for
instance - only).

HTH,

Alex.