http://vdt.cs.wisc.edu/releases/1.10.1/installation_advanced#pretend_32
1. Installing on an unsupported platform
If you want to install on an unsupported platform, you should use Pacman's "-pretend-platform" flag with one of the appropriate Pacman name for a similar platform. For example, on CentOS 5, you could do:
pacman -pretend-platform linux-rhel-5 ...
The list of Pacman names you can use are listed on our system requirements documenation web page. Note that Pacman accepts multiple names for a platform, and we list just one of them. For example RHEL-5 can be used instead of linux-rhel-5.
One some platforms you will see a message from the VDT verifying that you wish to install. It will look something like this:
The VDT is unable to recognize your platform. This version of the VDT
is supported on several Linux releases:
AIX, PPC
CentOS 5 x86, x86-64
Debian 3.1 (Sarge) x86
Debian 4 (Etch) x86, x86-64
Mac OS X 10.4 x86
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 AS x86, x86-64, IA-64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 AS x86, x86-64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 AP x86, x86-64
ROCKS Linux 3.3 x86
Scientific Linux Fermi 3 x86
Scientific Linux Fermi 4 x86, x86-64
Scientific Linux 4 IA-64
SUSE Linux 9 x86-64, IA-64
The VDT may work on other platforms, but it's not guaranteed. If you
encounter problems and send mail to the VDT team for support please
mention that you are installing the VDT on an unsupported platform.
2. Installing 32-bit software on a 64-bit platform
export VDT_PRETEND_32=1
3.Installing unsupported software
export VDT_ALLOW_UNSUPPORTED=1
You can reference the install guide of UMD :