i386 Subsurface AppImage

Dirk Hohndel dirk at hohndel.org
Sat Nov 7 12:05:00 PST 2015



> On Nov 7, 2015, at 11:22, Lubomir I. Ivanov <neolit123 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 7 November 2015 at 17:49, probono <probono at puredarwin.org> wrote:
>> 2015-11-07 16:26 GMT+01:00 Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org>:
>>>> On Nov 7, 2015, at 06:09, probono <probono at puredarwin.org> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Succeeded by using personality=linux32 for schroot and the linux32
>>>> command. Now I can build i386 AppImages locally on a 64-bit host.
>>> 
>>> Cool. But I assume that then only runs on a 32bit machine, right?
>> 
>> I think so, unless you set up a multiarch system along the lines of
>> http://askubuntu.com/questions/454253/how-to-run-32-bit-app-in-ubuntu-64-bit
>> which next to no one does. Same goes for https://icculus.org/fatelf/
> 
> i'd be surprised if there is a user request for a 32bit Linux
> AppImage, but who knows.

Until very recently there were 32bit atoms in cheap laptops, and we may see quark based laptops as well. And I could see people run an old Linux distro on an old 32bit netbook. That said, I don't expect significant interest in this, either. 

/D


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