Installöing Axoloti software on 64-bit linux system

#1

hello

i want to install axoloti on my 64 linux (debian) system (amd64).

i'm a bit confused about the dependencies which need to be installed, as these seem to be specified for a 32-bit system:
lib32z1 lib32ncurses5 lib32bz2-1.0

for example: lib32z1 is for a 32-bit system, but is also available as lib64z1 for a 64-bit system.
or lib32ncurses5 which is also available as lib64ncurses5 but only for i386 architecture and not for amd64.
and finally lib32bz2-1.0 seems not be available anymore, though lib64bz2-1.0 is, though so far i've not been able to find it.

in short, has anyone managed to get the axoloti software running on a 64-bit linux system?

many thanks for any help.

#2

A 32 bit application will require 32 bit libraries, but 32 bit apps (and their libraries) should work on 64 bit Linux. I believe the amd64 designation is for 64 bit, i386 for 32 bit. I think you want i386 versions of the libraries (which should co-exist happily with amd64 versions of the same libraries) for axoloti. I think the libbz package is now named something like libbz2-1.0:i386.
I am running axolti on a 64 bit Ubuntu system, but I installed it so long ago that I don't recall any specific stuff I had to do...
Hope this helps,
John

#3

I've certainly been running Axoloti on a 64 bit (Debian) Linux system.

As I recall, there are a couple of steps one needs to do to get 32 bit applications to run in this environment, but distributions have mechanisms to handle this.

Although this is for Ubuntu, the bits about dpkg --add-architecture seem familar, so I think something along this works for Debian as well:

#4

It was about two years ago that I installed the Axoloti + patcher on Ubuntu 20 64Bit, following these instructions - I had no issues then

#5

thanks everyone for your replies. i'll keep hacking away at this.