I can I install a 32 bit version of libsdl1.2debian on a 64 bit machine?

Question

I'm trying to install a 32 bit version of libsdl1.2debian as a program I'm trying to run, Powder Toy, returns this when launched:

/home/kyle/golly/powder-89.2-lin32/powder: error while loading shared libraries: libSDL-1.2.so.0: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64

I believe this means that the libSDL-1.2.so.0 is the 64 bit library. I tried to install the 32 bit version and get this:

[email protected]:~$ sudo apt-get install libsdl1.2debian: i386
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package i386

I also tried looking for the package in Synaptic package manager with the search string "libsdl1.2" and it only returned the debug, dev and runtime libraries that I already have installed. No i386 libraries were found. Help would be much appreciated, thanks.

Solution 1

What ever package you want Ubuntu uses a system called Multiarch. Multiarch is a new approach to running programs compiled for one computer architecture on another, particular i386<->amd64

This is the package you want libsdl1.2debian

which does have multiarch support so you can run the following:

 sudo apt-get install libsdl1.2debian:i386

Solution 2

Try this to install 32bit package on 64bit machine

sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
sudo apt-get update

then install your any 32bit packages:(ex: with package that you want to install it)

sudo apt-get install libsdl1.2debian:i386