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"No such file" when running a 32-bit program on a 64-bit system

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I downloaded a Chromium snapshot and unzipped it, like this:

michael@ubuntu:/opt/chrome-linux$ ls

chrome                  libffmpegsumo.so                nacl_irt_x86_32.nexe

chrome.1                libppGoogleNaClPluginChrome.so  product_logo_48.png

chrome_100_percent.pak  locales                         resources

chrome.pak              nacl_helper                     resources.pak

chrome_sandbox          nacl_helper_bootstrap           xdg-mime

chrome-wrapper          nacl_irt_srpc_x86_32.nexe       xdg-settings

But when I try to run chrome, it isn't there...

michael@ubuntu:/opt/chrome-linux$ ./chrome

bash: ./chrome: No such file or directory

Does anyone know why it won't open? Running Xubuntu 12.10 AMD64.

michael@ubuntu:/opt/chrome-linux$ ldd /opt/chrome-linux/* | grep -i "not found"

ldd: /opt/chrome-linux/locales: not regular file

ldd: /opt/chrome-linux/resources: not regular file

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answered 2 Years ago bblerest · Accepted Answer

You're missing 32-bit support. Install libc6:i386, i.e. the 32-bit base library package, and all the other 32-bit libraries that Chrome needs (it's likely to be close to the dependencies of the Chromium package).

When you fail to execute a file that depends on a “loader”, the error you get may refer to the loader rather than the file you're executing.

The loader of a dynamically-linked native executable is the part of the system that's responsible for loading dynamic libraries. It's something like /lib/ld.so or /lib/ld-linux.so.2, and should be an executable file.

The loader of a script is the program mentioned on the shebang line, e.g. /bin/sh for a script that begins with #!/bin/sh.

The error message is rather misleading in not indicating that the loader is the problem. Unfortunately, fixing this would be hard because the kernel interface only has room for reporting a numeric error code, not for also indicating that the error in fact concerns a different file.

Once you install the 32-bit dynamic loader /lib/ld-linux.so.2, which is in the libc6:i386 package, you will at least get a non-misleading error message telling you of the other missing libraries.