64 bit debian

[Peter]

Any chance of doing a version for this? It would be an awful lot easier to exercise it if I could do it on my main machine. I am almost there, its just the atk and gail libs that I cannot seem to get working. Or any chance of some very specific instructions on what to do to make them work?

[Ken]

Peter,

We haven't really tested Strata on 64-bit at this point, but we can look into it (hopefully we can get you a bit more resolution when folks are in on Monday when our Linux guys are available). In the meantime, the following may be helpful from a helpful person named Alexis who got the previous version of Strata running on 64-bit (I dug this out from our older support emails). I don't know what flavor of Linux he was using:

Hello,
I finally solved the issue. I am happy to tell you that since kstrata is built using the very compatible wxwidget library, there was no reason for this application not to run perfectly under a 64 bit environment. What I did was run the installer with linux32 and the full path to the setup: #linux32/root/kstrata_install/setup

It installed perfectly to /opt/kstrata/ To run it I just typed with no 32 bit emulation: #/opt/kstrata/bin/kstrata and it works! What is best is that it has no problem in using the 64 bit oracle client / database which I have installed and that it is using the wx/GTK2 64 bit libraries in my system.

Hope this provides a bit of help; let us know either way. Thanks.

[Peter]

Hi guys,

linux32 /home/peter/Desktop/strata_setup/setup
Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "gail": /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/modules/libgail.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64
Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "atk-bridge": /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/modules/libatk-bridge.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64
Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: No protocol specified


is what I get. I installed 32 bit gail and atk using the procedure from Debian's admin pages:

http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/534

using apt-file and dpkg.

But maybe there is something else I need to do to get gail and atk to be seen, or to install properly? Or maybe the app is not pointing to the 32bit versions? As far as I recall, I didn't have to install gail and atk separately on my 32 bit machine.

thanks in advance for help.

[Ben]

Hi,

Can you check if the 32-bit versions are in your ldconfig path? That might be the cause of the problem. Also, you might want to try compiling a small 32-bit hello world gtk application to make sure that the gtk suite of libraries is working well under 32-bit mode.

Thanks,
Ben

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[jholman]

I've been using it on Etch 64-bit. You need to set your GTK lib path. I use the following tiny bash script to launch Kirix, try switching the ./kstrata for the installer bin.

#!/bin/sh
export GTK_PATH=/usr/lib32/gtk-2.0
export PANGO_RC_FILE=/etc/pango32/pangorc
linux32 ./kstrata $@


-Josh

[Peter]

Josh

I ran the script. It could not find pangorc, but it did do the install into /home. I then tried to run kstrata from a terminal, and got the error

$ ./kstrata
./kstrata: error while loading shared libraries: libcurl.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I also tried making a pangorc file in accordance with suggestions on the net, and putting it into /etc/pango32. This now produces a lot of errors in trying to run the installer. If you want to know the detail I'll post.

I can't find libcurl.so.3 to install from synaptic or apt-get

I don't want to take up a lot of your time with what are probably fairly basic difficulties. Maybe it is best to just do what I can from the laptop until you guys come out with a release which is 64bit ready.

[stevermeeks]

What is up! Lovin this idea and what you guys are building. I wanted to pass on my 64 bit success. I am running Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) on a AMD 64-bit desktop HP Paviliion a1129n. Thanks to the previous posts i was able to run the installer with:

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root@desktop:/usr/bin# linux32 /root/strata_setup/setup


I login as a superuser by default so I dont have to go through all the hassle of sudo, just fyi. You may have to use sudo that if your not running as an administrator or superuser. I don't know for sure. The linux32 executable lives in /usr/bin as you can tell. It installed perfectly in /opt/kstrata. I will look forward to playing around with this great application. Thanks again.

[Aaron]

Steve,

Thanks for sharing your success! The linux version is still rough around the edges, so if you run into trouble, please let us know.

Best,
Aaron