I'm trying to install Replicant on my phone, for the exact same ideological
reasons I run Trisquel on my PC.
I ran into some problems during the installation, and posted about it here:
http://redmine.replicant.us/boards/3/topics/603
During discussion in that thread, it came to seem that the problem is that I
need the 32 bit compatibility libraries and don't have them installed.
So I came to this forum looking for how to install them. I encountered this
thread, as well as these others:
https://trisquel.info/en/forum/install-32-bit-software-64-bit-trisquel-troubleshooting
https://trisquel.info/en/issues/8155
https://trisquel.info/en/forum/many-unmet-dependencies-new-installation
https://trisquel.info/en/issues/4858
https://trisquel.info/en/forum/critical-error
https://trisquel.info/en/forum/dependency-broken-trisquel-60
https://trisquel.info/en/forum/bash-says-some-executables-exist-dont-exist-same-time
Reading these threads has left me feeling intimidated and discouraged. I
have no clarity about how to install the necessary libraries and and worry
that I'll screw up my computer trying. All the solutions proposed are way
over my head and also all appear to be different from each other.
The simplest proposed solution that I see is Armworm's:
# sudo apt-get install ia32-libs
# Go to /usr/share/libcapi20-3 and delete changelog.Debian.gz
# sudo apt-get -o DPkg::Options::="--force-overwrite" -fy install
But I'm hesitent to do this as I don't understand what it's doing, no one
else has confirmed that this worked for them, and there are a slew of other
proposed solutions out there that are all even more intimidatingly complex
and different from this one and each other.
I'm just looking for how to be able to run 32bit programs which I thought was
supposed to be as simple as sudo apt-get install ia32-libs.
Thanks so much in advance for any thoughts.
