Dear all,
I'm trying to install a 64-bit Ubuntu Linux. To be able to use acroread and other 32-bit software I'm trying to setup a multi arch environment using a fai hook to install the i386 specific libraries: root@faiserver:/srv/fai/config/hooks# cat updatebase.AMD64 #!/bin/bash echo Adding i386 multi-arch $ROOTCMD dpkg --add-architecture i386 root@faiserver:/srv/fai/config/package_config# cat AMD64 PACKAGES aptitude libgtk2.0-0:i386 libnss3-1d:i386 libnspr4-0d:i386 lib32nss-mdns* libxml2:i386 libxslt1.1:i386 libstdc++6:i386 Unfortunately during the fai installation process the hook is executed at a very early stage so that the dpkg package is not yet installed on the client. In the end the i386 packages mentioned above are not installed: [... fai.log ...] Calling task_prepareapt Calling hook: updatebase.AMD64 Adding i386 multi-arch updatebase.AMD64 OK. Calling task_updatebase Updating base /target/usr/sbin/dpkg-divert not available. Skipping. /target/usr/sbin/dpkg-divert not available. Skipping. [...] Of course I simply could introduce a script in the fai scripts-directory, which would be executed at the end of the installation but on the tips'n tricks web page the solution with the hook is presented: http://wiki.fai-project.org/wiki/Tips_and_tricks So I'm wondering whether there would be a more convenient solution... Thanks and best wishes Andreas -- Dr. Andreas Sindermann fon: +49 (221) 470-4201 Institut fuer Theoretische Physik fax: +49 (221) 470-5159 Universitaet zu Koeln Zuelpicher Str. 77 mailto:sin...@thp.uni-koeln.de D-50937 Koeln, Germany http://www.thp.uni-koeln.de/~sinder