How to run 32-bit app in Ubuntu 64-bit?

How to run 32-bit app in Ubuntu 64-bit?

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I installed Ubuntu 14.04 and the current Android development SDK, which contains 32-bit executables. I found that I cannot run those 32-bit binaries. Trying to start them from bash gives me an error: thomas@thinkpad$ ./adb bash: ./adb: No such file or directory It is there though: thomas@thinkpad$ ls -al ./adb -rwxrwxrwx 1 thomas thomas 1231255 Jan 17 13:31 ./adb thomas@thinkpad$ file ./adb ./adb: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.8, not stripped. Same symptom for all the other 32-bit tools in the Android SDK. In olden days one could just install 32-bit libraries on 64-bit Ubuntu to get 32-bit support, but that does not seem to work anymore. How do I run 32-bit apps on a 64-bit Ubuntu 14.04? 64-bit 32-bit share improve this question edited Oct 21 '14 at 19:35 KasiyA 10.7k 13 36 85 asked Apr 24 '14 at 7:29 Thomas Stuefe 333 1 3 6

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To run a 32-bit executable file on a 64-bit multi-architecture Ubuntu system, you have to add the i386 architecture and install the three library packages libc6:i386, libncurses5:i386, and libstdc++6:i386: sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386 Or if you are using Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) or below, use this: echo "foreign-architecture i386" > /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg.d/multiarch Then: sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install libc6:i386 libncurses5:i386 libstdc++6:i386 After these steps, you should be able to run the 32-bit application: ./example32bitprogram