Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: "J. Roeleveld" <joost@××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Brother Printer
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2016 04:23:31
Message-Id: 6C9FF65B-4820-47CF-9E1C-A1386514457E@antarean.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Brother Printer by Alec Ten Harmsel
1 On December 11, 2016 12:45:46 AM GMT+01:00, Alec Ten Harmsel <alec@××××××××××××××.com> wrote:
2 >On Sat, Dec 10, 2016 at 11:17:55PM +0100, siefke_listen@×××.de wrote:
3 >> On Fri, 09 Dec 2016 16:49:48 +0100
4 >> Nils Freydank <nils.freydank@××××××.de> wrote:
5 >>
6 >> > would need to migrate to an multilib profile - and I don’t know how
7 >awful this
8 >> > would become.
9 >>
10 >> I try and this make me more pain. I stopped. GCC, GLIBC and sandbox
11 >not
12 >> want compile. Something with blabla.32.h is missing. I find nothing
13 >in
14 >> documentation how can switch or im blind. (i wear classes :)
15 >
16 >I believe going from nomultilib to multilib is not officially
17 >supported.
18 >
19 >I'm on this thread a little late, but does CUPS not work? Every printer
20 >I've set up on a linux box (only a handful, to be fair) has worked out
21 >of the box without extra drivers.
22 >
23 >Alec
24
25 It is possible. But is not simple.
26 You need to create a multilib chroot. Build packages there which you then install on your main environment.
27
28 Best try this on a VM first a few times to make sure you fully understand all the steps.
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31 Joost
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