Eef Hartman wrote:

> Mothra2@mailinator.com wrote:
>> Now, what would be the least intrusive method of making this
>> (and probably other) 32 bit applications available?
>> Must I install another 32 bit OS, edit the GRUB menu, etc.
>> or is there a simpler way?
>
> I already tried to mail this before, but it bounced:
> It might be a 32-bits versus 64-bits issue.
> IF you're running the x86-64 version of OpenSUSE 11.0, try
> installing the libpng-devel-32bit package (as far as I can see, am
> not on 11.0 myself yet).
>
> For other Linux distributions it may be something like that.
>
> In general, for 32-bit apps in a 64-bit O/S, you NEED to install
> the 32-bit version of ALL "shared objects" they will be using.
> In SuSE the 32-bits ones are in /lib and /usr/lib, while the
> (used by the O/S itself) 64-bit ones are in /lib64 cq /usr/lib64
> but other distributions may do this "the other way 'round", so that
> the 32-bit ones would be in /lib32 cq /usr/lib32

YAST shows that libpng-devel-32bit was already installed, but to make
certain I told YAST to install it again. However, when I attempted to
install the 32 bit SimpleLabeler again, I received the same complaint
about it needing libpng.so.3 WHICH HAS BEEN INSTALLED in /usr/lib as
a link to /usr/lib64. It is a great "puzzlement" to me. :-(

I appreciate your efforts to help me, but the amount of SPAM that we
receive from harvests of newsgroup addresses forces me to use a
munged address when posting. Also, when anyone has a problem, it is
of great benefit to be able to share the solution with everyone on
the newsgroup rather than private correspondence.

Thanks again,

Godzilla