Comment 21 for bug 987502

Hi Darko,

Thank you very much for writing this up for me mate!

I'm not sure I even need this as I'm just an average Net user?

My system is 32 bit but I think I installed this maybe when thinking of
doing a web site???

I tried what you wrote but keep getting errors like it doesn't exist,
though I'm prompted everyday to update and returns a failure.

Here's the output after the first command:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer
required:
   python3.2 python3.2-minimal
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following extra packages will be installed:
   libxml2
The following NEW packages will be installed:
   libxml2-dev
The following packages will be upgraded:
   libxml2
1 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 5 not upgraded.
Failed to exec method /usr/lib/apt/methods/
E: Method has died unexpectedly!
E: Sub-process returned an error code (100)
E: Method /usr/lib/apt/methods/ did not start correctly

Second command output:

mv: cannot stat `/usr/bin/xml2-config': No such file or directory

and so on it goes pretty much the same from there.

Please see the screenshots from the Update Center too.

I'm really grateful for your help with this mate, I tried to follow the
links to rectify them all but don't have a clue what to do with the
files once downloaded.

Cheers mate!

Andrew

On 13/09/13 01:28, Darko Lombardo wrote:
> Hi Andrew.
>
> Generally, both versions of the library are needed if one needs multi
> architecture building option (e.g. x86_64 native build and i386
> backsupport (cross)build for 32-bit installations).
>
> I am building my i386 and x86_64 application on Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS using -m32 and -m64 gcc options.
> But running only 64-bit version of the application locally for the matter.
>
> To accomplish this I have done:
>
> Firstly installed libxml2-dev (x86_64)
> sudo apt-get install libxml2-dev
>
> Secondly, move problematic xml2-config
> sudo mv /usr/bin/xml2-config /usr/bin/xml2-config.x86_64
>
> Then install libxml2-dev:i386
> sudo apt-get install libxml2-dev:i386
>
> Rename xml2-config for i386
> sudo mv /usr/bin/xml2-config /usr/bin/xml2-config.i386
>
> Restore x86_64 xml2-config
> sudo cp /usr/bin/xml2-config.x86_64 /usr/bin/xml2-config
>
> Finally, had to call ldconfig to refresh the library paths and gcc
> builds my application with -m32 and excplicit -m64 (although not
> needed).
>
>
> ldconfig reports:
> $ ldconfig -p | grep xml2
> libxml2.so.2 (libc6,x86-64) => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxml2.so.2
> libxml2.so.2 (libc6) => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libxml2.so.2
> libxml2.so (libc6,x86-64) => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxml2.so
>