chroot environment

[jpg153]

Hi all,

I am considering to setup a chroot environment for 32bit apps on my 64bit Salix.

There was already a solution provided by Shador quite some time ago. It requires some additional work but did its job.
However in sourcery there is salix-chroot-install and schroot - both designed to support a chroot environment.

Does anyone have experience with these tools?

However I think to install a full 32bit system bootable in parallel to be able to update it. Would that work in a chroot?

The chroot should allow some applications to run as well as virtual box (or was it vmware..). I want to avoid multilib.

Please let me know your thoughts.

Thanks.

[elcore]

One can chroot into Salix32 from Salix64, but not the other way around.
Similar situation with vm host/guest, one needs 64 bit host to run 64 bit guest.
At least from my experience, I could not even boot a pre-installed 64 bit guest on 32 bit host.

[jpg153]

Hi,

maybe I put it somewhat unclear..

The host is 64bit and I want to chroot into a 32bit environment. Not the other way round

[gapan]

salix-chroot-installer can be used to set up the chroot and then use schroot to access it. It's mostly explained in this email from our mailing list:
https://sourceforge.net/p/salix/mailman ... /33182843/

[jpg153]

Thanks Gapan,

it reads almost exactly what I want.
Just one question: with Shadors solution I didnot need not take care about graphics drivers and printer setup in the 32bit environment.
I was running Textmaker (gui app) in the 32bit chroot and printing went simply on the 64bit system without having a printer configured
in the 32bit system. Does that work with Schroot as well? I guess it would...

thanks again.

coincidently, its around the same time just one year after

[gapan]

Yes, printing should work without having to set it up in the chroot. After all, cups is just a server and can be accessed from anywhere in the network, let alone from localhost.

[jpg153]

Thanks.

Will let you know when all is up and running

[gapan]

Oh, I see I didn't answer the graphics drivers part in my previous post. You won't have to do that either. Everything is working within your host system anyway and Xorg is also a server.

[jpg153]

Hi Gapan,

I started as you suggested.
After that I engaged a schroot session and received following message:

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F: 15binfmt: which: no update-binfmts in (/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin)

(I receive same message when exiting the chroot).

I installed "softmaker office 2016":

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jpg@jpg153salix:~/Downloads/LinuxPakete$ sudo ./installsmoffice

./installsmoffice: line 994: bc: command not found

This script will install SoftMaker Office 2016.

Do you want to continue (y/n)? [y] y

while installing the screen shows

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Using existing xdg-utils
./installsmoffice: line 227: bc: command not found
./installsmoffice: line 488: bc: command not found
Create MIME
Adding document icons...
./installsmoffice: line 329: bc: command not found

and further:

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Registering MIME types...
sed: can't read /etc/mime.types: No such file or directory
Installing for user(s) 
./installsmoffice: line 28: bc: command not found

After successful installation, with starters not working on my desktop, I invoked
textmaker to get up:

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jpg[bin]$ textmaker
libGL error: failed to load driver: swrast
libGL error: Try again with LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose for more details.

I received a similar message within textmaker when it came up.
But only after the first start. on second start the messages are gone.

So far so good! Thanks.

Is there a way to create a starter on my 64bit-desktop which will start the app inside the chroot automatically
and...to create a mime type for that?

[gapan]

The "bc: command not found" messages were obviously because you didn't have bc installed and the installer needed it somehow. The "update-binfmts" message shouldn't be a problem, I think it's looking for some debian thing.

Is there a way to create a starter on my 64bit-desktop which will start the app inside the chroot automatically
and...to create a mime type for that?

You can create a .desktop file that will launch the command you want through schroot. That .desktop file can also include mimetypes. That should do it.