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Old October 25th, 2008, 12:51 PM
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Default Re: Linux: Installation on 64-bit system

In case it's not just the installer (in WinXP now, so I can't do an 'ld' to check dependencies) --


If you wanted to use a specific 32-bit library that'd conflict with an existing 64-bit version... two things that come to mind are

(1) using a script with an LD_LIBRARY_PATH (IIRC) setting that gives the directory with the version you want (or even LD_LIBRARY_PRELOAD); neither will work with suid binaries, 'tho, and

(2) using a chroot environment, which is more of a pain to set up but should work for anything.
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