32-bit Java on 64-bit Ubuntu

If you try and install 32-bit Java on 64-bit Ubuntu you will get an error,

This is because the 32-bit library support is not installed,

For Ubuntu 13 and higher, multiarch has also been removed for direct dependencies,

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• sudo apt-get install package-name:i386 - http://askubuntu.com/questions/107230/what-happened-to-the-ia32-libs-package
• Discusses how to manually determine dependencies for package-name:i386 - http://askubuntu.com/questions/359156/how-do-you-run-a-32-bit-program-on-a-64-bit-version-of-ubuntu
• More discussions - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9393670/how-to-run-a-32bit-jvm-on-a-64bit-linux

Reading above, somehow(I forget now), but somehow, I got to this and it works,

 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,

sudo apt-get install ia32-libs-multiarch 

For Ubuntu 11 and lower,

sudo apt-get install ia32-libs # Required for 32-bit Java on 64-bit Ubuntu

Now 32-bit Java can be installed,

su - serveradmin # If you are not already serveradmin
cd ~ # Switch to the serveradmin home directory
tar -xvpf jre-7u7-linux-i586.tar.gz

The result will be an uncompressed jre directory using the same name as the package. In this example the folder name would be, jre-7u7-linux-i586.

If you plan to use multiple versions of Java, we recommend keeping the folder name with the version number information and using symbolic links. If you are only using one version of Java, then simply rename the folder.

For the server example, we will rename the folder,

mv jre-7u7-linux-i586 java