Re: [cooker-amd64] Re: americas army not working

[jason pearl]

On Thu, 2003-12-18 at 22:51, J.P. Pasnak wrote:
> Duncan said:
> 
> > jason pearl posted <1071748990.5190.35.camel@localhost>, excerpted below,
> > on Thu, 18 Dec 2003 05:03:10 -0700:
> >
> >> anyone try running the game americas army yet... im not liking the fact
> >> that alott programs i want to install wont because it says my
> >> architecture
> >> not correct. isnt this supposed to be 32 bit compatbile.Orrrr am i doing
> >> something wrong?
> >
> > I'm not sure about that particular game.. but in many cases, the
> > compatibility problem isn't the app per se, but the libraries.. which it
> > wants in 32-bit not just the 64-bit likely installed.  If that's the
> 
> I haven't tried it myself either, but I'll skip the $.50 diatribe, and say
> try installing 'linux32' and running 'linux32 ./armyops190-linux.bin'
> which should get you around the architecture problem.   Another option is
> to try './whatever.bin --keep', which will, if using the Loki installer
> (which most do), keep the uncompressed files around, and you can just dig
> through the output errors to find a way around the installation (YMMV).
linux32 thing woulnt work but heres what i got..  it unpacks the program
fine and then say starting actual installer and stops... it did make a
new directory with all the files in it.. i run sh setup.sh and nothing
happen it just returns to my root dir.. i wish it would at least give me
an error
 i tried running sh -v setup.sh and it gave me souce code..
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