Please post the output of ldd
--regards Prosun Prodhan 09339192066(M) Registered Linux User # 318610 (LiCo : http://www.linuxcounter.net, formerly http://counter.li.org) Use Open Document Format. Try OpenOffice (http://www.openoffice.org) or LibreOffice (http://www.libreoffice.org) - Free Of Cost. [When you say, "I wrote a program that crashed Windows," people just stare at you blankly and say, "Hey, I got those with the system, for free." - Linus Torvalds] NOTICE: This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named. If you are not the named addressee you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. Please notify the sender immediately by e-mail if you have received this e-mail by mistake and delete this e-mail from your system. E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or contain malware - harmful to the system. The sender therefore does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the contents/attachments of this message, which arise as a result of e-mail transmission. Please note that this is a PERSONAL mail-id and any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of any company. On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 2:42 AM, Stephen John Smoogen <smo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On 27 April 2015 at 15:07, Ken Teh <t...@anl.gov> wrote: > >> I have a user who has installed an executable built on a other Linux >> distro. Claims it was built on a 64-bit linux (doubtful). He has no >> problems running it on a 32-bit SL6.x machine but cannot run it on a 64-bit >> SL6.x machine. Chokes with the following: >> >> ...:/lib/ld-linux.so: bad ELF interpreter: No such file or directory. >> >> I'm wondering if it is "safe" to add a symbolic link to the >> ld-linux-x86_64.so.2 to fix this. >> > > Probably not. I would check to see what ldd on the binary says it is > trying to do. If this was built on a system that doesn't understand > multi-lib that EL uses.. you are probably up schlock kreek without a > paddle. I believe the other method that is used is running the 32 bit in a > 'chroot' and they don't play well if not in that or similar. > > -- > Stephen J Smoogen. > >