On Wed, July 24, 2013 12:41, RafaÅ Pietrak wrote: > Thenx Thijs for quick response, > > I've looked up the debian-7 release notes, and its section on > multiarchitecture - regretibly it doesn't explain much (like: how to > have fine-controll over it), just confirms what you say. > > Anyway. I did: > # dpkg --add-architecture i386 > # apt-get update > > but after that, my: > # apt-get install ia32-libs > ... offers me to install tons of 32-bit software&libraries; quite like > it was now necessary to double my system for 32-bit architecture. I'm > quite reluctant to let it go.
This is expected. The difference is that in the past you "just" installed ia32-libs but that package was 250MB big and contained all those libraries, now just the individual libraries are installed. > isn't there a way (any way) to install just the required packages > (required, by the offending thrd party software) ? There is, that's the whole advantage of Multiarch over the old ia32-libs. The 3rd party just needs to change their package to not depend on ia32-libs but only on the relevant 32 bit libraries they need. Thijs -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
