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I need to install the 32-bit version of libstdc++.so.6 on a 64 bit Ubuntu 8.04.2 server.

when i tried apt-get install ia32-libs, it says 

root@devserver:~/downloads# apt-get install ia32-libs
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
ia32-libs is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 133 not upgraded.

But when i tried to enable a PHP extension (libpdf_php.so), which uses this runtime library following error is logged in php error log.

root@devserver:~/downloads# cat /var/log/apache2/php_error.log
[01-Nov-2011 16:54:09] PHP Warning:  PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/lib/php5/20060613/libpdf_php.so' - /usr/lib/php5/20060613/libpdf_php.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32 in Unknown on line 0
root@devserver:~/downloads#
Mithun Sreedharan
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You could've used apt-get install lib32stdc++6.

MadBoy
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    This answered the question in the title (How to install 32-bit version of libstdc++.so.6 on a 64 bit machine) to me. – setempler Aug 19 '14 at 00:59
  • Hi, When I run sudo apt-get install lib32stdc++6 its give me o/p like : The following NEW packages will be installed: lib32stdc++6 But, when I run ls /usr/lib32 Its not exist. Please let me know where I am wrong. Thanks. – AB Bolim Jul 22 '15 at 07:03
  • This helped me get bison running for an Android source build on Ubuntu 14.04. – bonh Aug 27 '15 at 03:24
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    I had to add the :i386 after the package name (I actually wanted the 32 bit version of libstdc++.so.5: apt-get install libstdc++5:i386) – Steven C. Howell Jan 07 '16 at 19:32
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What makes you think you need a 32-bit version of libstdc++.so.6?

64-bit Ubuntu runs 64-bit Apache which runs 64-bit PHP which it seems can't load 32-bit libpdf_php.so, which it tells you in the error message.

It's unlikely that installing ia32-libs will solve the problem - I would say you need 64-bit version of libpdf_php.so

It looks like pdflib's website has a separate download for x86-64 architecture - I downloaded the archive and the .so file inside it is definitely 64-bit.

Sergey
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The problem is not with libstdc++, it's with libpdf_php.so. You need to download the 32-bit version of that library.