[CentOS] 32 bit applications on 64 bit machine

[Scott Ehrlich]

On Tue, 5 Feb 2008, Rozsa Sandor wrote:

> Hi people,
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> I have a 64 bit Centos machine. My problem is that I can't run 32 bit applications on that. I can compile with the 32 bit option my sources, but when I'm trying to run them I obtain the following error message:
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> -bash: ./a.out: cannot execute binary file
> And the  file a.out returns the following:
> a.out: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), for GNU/Linux 2.6.9, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.9, not stripped
>
> Any suggestions what I have to install or any links.

A shot in the dark, but have you tried installing the compat libraries? 
Maybe something as simple as yum install compat*

Scott

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