32bit on AMD64

[Loïc Grenié]

2010/11/17 Thierry de Coulon <tcoulon at decoulon.ch>:
> Hi!
>
> I had decided to give a try to going 64bit. unfortunately, I quite nned to use
> a Kodak i1220 scanner frequently... and this scanner requires Kodak's
> drivers... and these drivers are only for i386.
>
> I did try, hoping it would work. Most things install correctly until i get
> this error:
>
> Installing the TWAIN DSM...
> dpkg: error processing twaindsm.deb (--install):
>  package architecture (i386) does not match system (amd64)
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  twaindsm.deb
> Installing Packages...
> dpkg: error processing *.deb (--install):
>  cannot access archive: No such file or directory
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  *.deb
>
> Is there some magic I can do to (force?) install an i386 package?
>
> I've found some (older) instruction to create a chrooted i386 environment but
> I must say I'm not so fond of the idea, so I'll probably have to stay i386
> for the time being.

    The package appears to be "buildable". You can download the source
  from www.twain.org and compile it (it's not very easy: you need to change
  directory to twaidsm-1.2.1/src, type cmake ., then make). If you have the
  i386.deb, you can look at the contents with dpkg-deb -c twaindsm.deb
  and install the files in the correct directories.

     Sorry if I'm not very precise...

       Hope this helps anyway,

           Loíc