Hello everyone!

I know that many people are against having a lot of 32 bit software on their 64 bit system unless it is necessary, but I do not really care about how the system has to load two libraries into RAM and all of the other stuff people say about having 32bit software on a 64 bit OS.

But I want to install 32 bit X.org on my 64 bit Opensuse 13.2. I am trying this first in VMware on my intel based machine.


The first thing that I did was removed Xorg and all of the programs that were associated with X. Then I installed the following software from RPMfind, I installed them in the order you see below.:

gcc-32bit
glibc-32bit
glibc-locale-32bit
libgio-2_0-0-32bit
libgmodule-2_0-0-32bit
libgobject-2_0-0-32bit
libncurses5-32bit
patterns-openSUSE-32bit
xf86-video-vmware-13.1.0-1.3.i586.rpm
xorg-x11-server-extra-7.6_1.17.1-9.2.i586.rpm
Mesa-libGL-devel-10.3.0-91.3.2.i586.rpm
Mesa-10.3.0-91.3.2.i586.rpm
xorg-x11-7.6-67.1.4.i586.rpm
xfs-1.1.4-3.2.i586.rpm
xinit-1.3.4-6.1.i586.rpm
xorg-x11-driver-video-7.6_1-15.1.i586.rpm
xf86-video-fbdev-0.4.4-3.3.i586.rpm
xorg-x11-server-7.6_1.17.1-8.1.i586.rpm
xf86-video-vesa-2.3.3-6.3.i586.rpm
xf86-input-evdev-2.9.2-1.1.i586.rpm
xdm-1.1.11-3.8.1.i586.rpm
conky-1.9.0-4.1.7.i586.rpm
xterm-318-1.1.i586.rpm
openbox-3.5.2-9.2.i586.rpm

Xorg does not display, it just shoots out the error:

xauth: file /home/frodo/.serverauth.5006 does not exist


Fatal server error:
Cannot move old log file "/var/log/Xorg.0.log" to "/var/log/Xorg.0.log.old"


Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support
at X.Org Wiki - Home
for help.

xinit: giving up
xinit: unable to connect to X server: Connection refused
xinit: server error
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
xinit failed. /usr/bin/Xorg is not setuid, maybe that's the reason?
If so either use a display manager (strongly recommended) or adjust /etc/permissions.local


So I edited the permissions file and removed the "#" saved the file and then rebooted the computer, the error went away, however X still did not display.

The only error that displayed now was:

xinit: giving up
xinit: unable to connect to X server: Connection refused
xinit: server error

So I checked the log file ( I'll post it in a couple of hours, I'm away from my computer) and it is complaining about unable to find libgl.so.1.

Before I removed X and everything related to X, the system worked fine, but now it does not. I tried to add all the packages that were important back, but maybe I missed a few.

Can someone help me out?

You are doing it wrong. If you want to run 32 bit programs on your system you don't remove the 64 bit counterparts, but you just add the 32 bit parts. Otherwise you will end up with a system on which only 32 bit programs can run on the GUI. You need both, 32 and 64 bit.

as above
you are cutting off YOUR left hand to fix the issue on your RIGHT hand


to install 32 bit libs ( /usr/lib ) on a 64 bit system ( /usr/lib64)

you INSTALL the 32 bit versions

there will not be any 32 bit for THIS

mind you x needs to be 64 for the 64 bit Gmone3 or KDE4

but for gcc
you have
gcc33-32bit
gcc48-32bit
gcc49-32bit


download the 32 bit iso
reformat the drive
open the computer and REMOVE all but 4 gig of ram-- you will never need the rest
install the 32 bit opensuse

Thanks Tobi, I feel like such an idiot.

I have no idea what I was doing :P

It may be a wives tale but I heard that 32 bit programs run a little faster on a 64 bit kernel, which was why I wanted to do this.