What's the quick and easy way to install 32-bit

[rich52]

Is there a quick and easy way to install 32-bit software on my 64-bit Fedora 11 machine? I've got some software that is 32-bit but can't use them because I lack those library files etc. needed to run them. The programs I'm trying to get to work are :

LightZone 3.7 and Bibblepro both photo software.

Any help would be appreciated. I'd hate to go back to Ubuntu 9.04 64-bit (it worked and all that was need were ia32libs I believe.)

Rich:confused:

[rich52]

Bibblepro installed fine and the dependencies were downloaded and installed automatically. Lightzone is a java written package and I can't get it to execute even after installing jre and some others files associated with java. Still can't execute the program. The permissions in the program file are checked and I tried running it from terminal but no luck. . . . It worked in Ubuntu 9.04 64-bit.

Still puzzled and frustrated. . .

rich:mad:

[marko]

Bibblepro installed fine and the dependencies were downloaded and installed automatically. Lightzone is a java written package and I can't get it to execute even after installing jre and some others files associated with java. Still can't execute the program. The permissions in the program file are checked and I tried running it from terminal but no luck. . . . It worked in Ubuntu 9.04 64-bit.

Still puzzled and frustrated. . .

rich:mad:

Did you change your alternatives setting to point to the proper (read 32bit) JVM?
see:
http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mjm-fedora-f11.html#java

Did you remember to change your shell's JAVA_HOME environment variable to point to the 32bit JVM?

[rich52]

I install Jre 6U16 from Sun's site. I installed both 32 and 64-bit packages and followed the procedures outlined by the previous post and I still can't get LightZone to run. When I click the icon it just jumps up and down then disappears. Something is amiss here. I want to desparately get this package up and running as it is excellent for photography. It worked fine in Ubuntu 9.04 but they've got issues with kpackage, apt, snaptic which is messed up on 64-bit. So far Fedora has met or exceeded my requirments till now. Please any help is appreciated. What am I doing wrong. ( In ubuntu all I had to add was ia32libs and a few other packages and everything worked well.)

Rich

[sonoran]

The best way to diagnose problems like this is to try to start the program from a terminal and see what error messages are printed. Some programs also have a debug option that will give you verbose messages. To see what options a program has, add -help or --help after its name in the terminal.

[rich52]

Got it working tonight! Now I've got all of my photo software working in Fedora. That's great.

Thanks for all the help.

Rich