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Jerome

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Registered: 2016-02-26

Posts: 148

Running 32bit applications on a 64bit system

I understand that I need to install some 32bit libs in order to get my brother printer working on my 64bit system and not sure exactly which ones I need. Any suggestions? Thanks.

Dai_trying

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From: UK

Registered: 2015-12-14

Posts: 2,992

Re: Running 32bit applications on a 64bit system

For my Brother printer I ran the install script from the brother website and it installed all the required (32 bit) packages without requiring me to have a multiarch system. The only problem will be when updating and installing stuff as there will be some complaints from the system, to get around this you can simply add the architecture

sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386

and then update the repositories

sudo apt update

and everything should be ok.

What printer model do you have?

My HL-L2340DW laser printer has not missed a beat since being installed this way. And just to note it is possible to install without the Brother installer package but I found I was missing a few options that made life a little easier so it is worth doing a "proper" installation (IMO).

Jerome

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Registered: 2016-02-26

Posts: 148

Re: Running 32bit applications on a 64bit system

Thanks Dai, I have a HL-1110 b & w laser printer. Very basic but it's all I need. Everything went without a hitch after installing the 32bit libs and running the install script. :-)