Can I use 32bit shared libraries on a 64bit machine?

[ik]

You can use 32 bit libraries in 64 bit machines. I use several VPNs in Linux
that are only 32 bit based, while my own machine is 64 bit.

I haven't used Mandriva for a long time, but as far as I remember, you
should place it under the "normal" lib directory. the lib64 is for 64 bit
only. That's way you maintain the order of things.

When done, do ldconfig -v to see if the shared library was found in the
search path. If not, please add it to /etc/ld.so.conf.d/ or any other
directory/file Mandriva requires it.

Good luck

Ido

On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 21:59, Herouth Maoz <herouth at spamcop.net> wrote:

> Sorry about the newbie question. Our sysadmin is going abroad for the
> holidays, and I have to cover for him. Sort of. Well, I need to be able to
> connect to our office using Checkpoint SNX. But the version I was given is
> looking for libpam.so.0, I assume the 32 bit version, and doesn't find the
> /lib64/libpam.so.0 I have.
>
> Should I install the 32 bit version of pam? Or is that going to have ill
> effects on my system? Or maybe I should just add /lib64 to LD_LIBRARY_PATH
> or something?
>
> (My machine is Mandriva 2010.0)
>
> Thanks,
> Herouth
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