[Oneiric] 32bit freeglut won't install with 64bit

[Dave Gilbert]

I'm trying to run Fold.it which is a 32bit prebuilt binary; it wants a 32bit glut; OK - so I set up multi arch and do:

apt-get install freeglut3:i386

but that says:

The following packages will be REMOVED:
  freeglut3 freeglut3-dev impressive python-opengl

ok, fine - lets try the old way; there was an ia32-freeglut3 but installing that says:

Package ia32-freeglut3 is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
However the following packages replace it:
  ia32-libs

yet:
dpkg -L ia32-libs|grep -i glut

gives nothing.

So, at the moment there appears to be no way of getting 32bit glut apps to work on 64bit.

Dave

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: freeglut3 2.6.0-1ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-11.18-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-11-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
CheckboxSubmission: f2d10bd9f943a85b486a282e7840a570
CheckboxSystem: 0531969bcfd4f03af7405c98dc94a948
Date: Sun Sep 25 17:58:59 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: freeglut
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-24 (0 days ago)

[Scott Ritchie (scottritchie)]

Yes, freeglut needs to be multiarched, even moreso now that it is not in ia32-libs.

[Maxime R. (max.r)]

Facing the same problem as i tried to run Fold.it, i found the following workaround :
- download freeglut3_2.6.0-1ubuntu2_i386.deb at http://packages.ubuntu.com/fr/oneiric/i386/freeglut3
- extract libglut.so.3 and libglut.so.3.9.0 to /usr/lib32 (or /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu, i'm the using xorg-edgers ppa)
- run LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib32/ ./Foldit

[rew (r-e-wolff)]

Bug #885652 and Bug #859038 seem awfully similar.