Ubuntu – How to use apt-get to download multi-arch library

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Is it possible to force apt-get to download a multi-architecture binary of the library I want to install?

Or is apt-get not the right tool for this?

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First to enable multi-arch

dpkg --add-architecture <arch>

Now setup apt-sources to add the new repositories of the new architecture(if you need)

now update your sources.list

sudo apt-get update

Now you can install multi-arch packages via apt-get regularly but you have to specify which architecture you want to download

apt-get install package:architecture

example:

apt-get install gedit:i386

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I would just use system:

SYSTEM(3)            Linux Programmer's Manual           SYSTEM(3)

NAME
       system - execute a shell command

SYNOPSIS
       #include <stdlib.h>

       int system(const char *command);

DESCRIPTION
       system() executes a command specified in command by calling
       /bin/sh -c command, and returns after the command has  been
       completed.   During  execution of the command, SIGCHLD will
       be blocked, and SIGINT and SIGQUIT will be ignored.

RETURN VALUE
       The value returned is -1 on error (e.g.   fork(2)  failed),
       and  the return status of the command otherwise.  This lat-
       ter return status is in the format  specified  in  wait(2).
       Thus, the exit code of the command will be WEXITSTATUS(sta-
       tus).  In case /bin/sh could not be executed, the exit sta-
       tus will be that of a command that does exit(127).

       If  the  value of command is NULL, system() returns nonzero
       if the shell is available, and zero if not.

       system() does not affect the wait status of any other chil-
       dren.

It is not a hack to use a simple solution.

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