How to install ia32-libs in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr)

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You can try this to install the 32-bit library (not all in ia32-libs):

sudo  apt-get install program:i386

sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386 may be required (if you haven't ever run that).

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Or if you want to install the whole ia32-lib instead, try the following order:

sudo -i
cd /etc/apt/sources.list.d
echo "deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ raring main restricted universe multiverse" >ia32-libs-raring.list
apt-get update
apt-get install ia32-libs

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PS: In this way, you can install ia32-libs. However, we add the source of 13.04 instead, so, there may be some unknown problem. After installing ia32-libs, I recommend you to remove the ia32-libs-raring.list in /etc/apt/sources.list.d, and do sudo apt-get update.

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If you want to fix the dependency of Android SDK, you can try this bellow:

sudo apt-get install -y libc6-i386 lib32stdc++6 lib32gcc1 lib32ncurses5 lib32z1

Install gcc multiple library.

sudo apt-get install gcc-multilib

The best answer I have ever seen is How to run 32-bit applications on Ubuntu 64-bit?

sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libc6:i386 libncurses5:i386 libstdc++6:i386
sudo ./adb

I got it finally! Here is my way, and I hope it can help you :)

sudo apt-get install libc6:i386
sudo -i
cd /etc/apt/sources.list.d
echo "deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ raring main restricted universe multiverse" >ia32-libs-raring.list
apt-get update
apt-get install ia32-libs
rm /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ia32-libs-raring.list
apt-get update
exit
sudo apt-get install gcc-multilib

I don't know the reason why I need to install these, but it works on my computer. When you finish installing these packages, it's time to try. Oh yes, I need to tell you. This time when you want to compile your code, you should add -m32 after gcc, for example: gcc -m32 -o hello helloworld.c. Just make clean and make again. Good luck friends.

PS: my environment is: Ubuntu 14.04 64-bit (Trusty Tahr) and GCC version 4.8.4. I have written the solution in my blog, but it is in Chinese :-) - How to compass 32bit programm under ubuntu14.04.

These alternative libraries worked for me:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install lib32z1 lib32ncurses5 lib32bz2-1.0 lib32stdc++6

I had the same problem as above and Eclipse suggested installing:

Hint: On 64-bit systems, make sure the 32-bit libraries are installed:   
   "sudo apt-get install ia32-libs"    
or on some systems,  
   "sudo apt-get install lib32z1"   

When I tried to install ia32-libs, Ubuntu prompted to install three other packages:

$ sudo apt-get install ia32-libs  
Reading package lists... Done  
Building dependency tree         
Reading state information... Done  
Package ia32-libs is not available, but is referred to by another package.  
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or  
is only available from another source  
However the following packages replace it:  
  lib32z1 lib32ncurses5 lib32bz2-1.0  

E: Package 'ia32-libs' has no installation candidate  
$   
$ sudo apt-get install lib32z1 lib32ncurses5 lib32bz2-1.0    

With Android Studio and intellij, I also had to install the 32bit version of libstdc++6:

sudo apt-get install lib32stdc++6