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I am trying to run a 32bit server process on my VPS, however when I do so it is having problems loading the shared libraries the process needs.

When googling around they suggest "sudo apt-get install ia32-libs", when I do this I fear Ubuntu wants to replace every single package I have installed with 32bit ones, all kinds of packages previously installed ( including nginx and php ) are asked to be installed.

What am I doing wrong?

Antwan van Houdt
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  • can you paste the output of what it is trying to install? (ctrl-c to cancel etc...) – Tom May 13 '12 at 11:56
  • Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] y WARNING: untrusted versions of the following packages will be installed! php5-xsl libmagickcore3 mysql-server php5 libmagickwand3 php5-sqlite libapache2-mod-php5 mysql-server-core-5.5 php5-snmp php5-gd libmysqlclient18 php5-imagick php-pear php5-curl php5-pspell php5-suhosin php5-xmlrpc mysql-client php5-mcrypt php5-mysql php5-memcache php5-cgi php5-cli php5-dev php5-fpm mysql-common php5-common mysql-server-5.5 mysql-client-5.5 -- I am starting to get the feeling that it simply is installing 32bit for EVERY library on the system.. – Antwan van Houdt May 13 '12 at 12:01
  • "/home/jabwd/etserver/etmain/qagame.mp.i386.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory" Sys_LoadDll(qagame) failed dlopen() completely! – Antwan van Houdt May 13 '12 at 12:02
  • What repository have you added to your sources.list? Those shouldn't be showing as untrusted. – Shane Madden May 13 '12 at 12:05
  • deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable all deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib deb http://packages.dotdeb.org/ stable all I added these 3 extra ones a few weeks ago, I think it was because I had to update some package that wasn't yet available on the ubuntu repositories – Antwan van Houdt May 13 '12 at 12:09

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"What am I doing wrong?"
Well, it looks like you have mixed up a Ubuntu installation with lots of third party (Dotdeb / debian) packages and ended up in DEB-hell.
Sidenote: The packages from Dotdeb should work on Ubuntu, but no additional support will be provided.

Anyway, installation of ia32-libs on Ubuntu should look somewhat like this, when used with the no-install-recommends switch enabled:

# apt-get install --no-install-recommends ia32-libs
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  lib32asound2 lib32bz2-1.0 lib32gcc1 lib32ncurses5 lib32stdc++6 lib32v4l-0 lib32z1 libc6-i386 libv4l-0
Suggested packages:
  lib32asound2-plugins
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  ia32-libs lib32asound2 lib32bz2-1.0 lib32gcc1 lib32ncurses5 lib32stdc++6 lib32v4l-0 lib32z1 libc6-i386 libv4l-0
0 upgraded, 10 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 41.7MB of archives.
After this operation, 173MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?

Only 10 new packages needed on my Ubuntu 10.04.4 amd64 here.

From my point of view a clean installation of your "Enemy Territory" Ubuntu-server is the safest way to go. De-installing the dotdeb packages (PHP and MySQL-packages) and start from scratch with different, official repositories is another way.
Or install Debian on the VPS and use the Dotdeb-repository.

Henk
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