(Solved) How to install multilib

[ghostdawg]

I'm trying to install multilib support for 32bit apps on 64bit OS. I'm needing it to install my Brother AIO printer, which has only 32 bit drivers. This is an upgrade system from 14.1 to 14.2. Every time I try to wget the link below, I end up with only one "index.html" file.

"wget -r --no-parent http://connie.slackware.com/~alien/mult ... -compat32/"

shouldn't it download the complete tree? I was following the link below and switched fom 13.0 to 14.2.

The wiki, "https://docs.salixos.org/wiki/How_to_in ... b_Packages"

Am I doing something wrong? Any suggestions on solving this?

Thnx.

[laprjns]

hmm.. it worked for me. I downloaded around a thousand files

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rich[gggg]$ tree -L 6
.
└── www.slackware.com
    ├── robots.txt
    └── ~alien
        └── multilib
            └── 14.2
                └── slackware64-compat32
                    ├── GPG-KEY
                    ├── README
                    ├── a-compat32
                    ├── ap-compat32
                    ├── d-compat32
                    ├── index.html
                    ├── index.html?C=D;O=A
                    ├── index.html?C=D;O=D
                    ├── index.html?C=M;O=A
                    ├── index.html?C=M;O=D
                    ├── index.html?C=N;O=A
                    ├── index.html?C=N;O=D
                    ├── index.html?C=S;O=A
                    ├── index.html?C=S;O=D
                    ├── l-compat32
                    ├── n-compat32
                    ├── x-compat32
                    └── xap-compat32

[laprjns]

Every time I try to wget the link below, I end up with only one "index.html" file.

"wget -r --no-parent http://connie.slackware.com/~alien/mult ... -compat32/"

Actually in a browers the link redirect to this link
http://www.slackware.com/~alien/multili ... -compat32/

So try this wget link instead

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$ wget -r --no-parent http://www.slackware.com/~alien/multilib/14.2/slackware64-compat32/

This was the actual link that I used to get wget to download all the files

[ghostdawg]

I'll give it a try when I get home in the late AM hours. Thanks.

[djemos]

download install-multilib package and install it with

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sudo spkg install-multilib-1.1.0-x86_64-1dj.txz

Then to install multilib type

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sudo install-multilib salix local

More details here

[ghostdawg]

Thanks guys. djemos, I tried your way and it worked. I believe the other way would have worked also. Maybe someone can update the How to install multilib wiki. Now I need to figure out getting the printer going.

[djemos]

Yes. What this script does is what you will do by hand, the other way. With the benefit that it works for stable and for current slackware version as well.
salix means download multilib for the stable version and slackel download multilib for the current version of slackware.

[mimosa]

Another approach is to create an i486 chroot inside your normal system. Searching the forum for schroot will probably turn up instructions ...