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The case for 32-bit Java on 64-bit Ubuntu is no longer officially endorsed as part of Bonsai Framework for Enterprise work. Where may be useful, is for home use to significantly reduce memory footprint. For example, Confluence on 32-bit requires less than 1GB of memory while 64-bit is 2x. Modern Java versions may fix this using compression type scans. In my previous experience, there was a cost to this, but it may have been mitigated now (Nov 2016) through optimization. I'm looking at this over December 2016 so stay tuned... |
If you try and install 32-bit Java on 64-bit Ubuntu you will get an error,
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sudo apt-get install libc6:i386 libgcc1:i386 gcc-4.6-base:i386 libstdc++5:i386 libstdc++6:i386 |
For Ubuntu 12 to 12.04, ia32-lib has been removed in favour of multiarch,
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