libXm.so.3 instead of libXm.so.2

sudo apt-get install libmotif3

According to:
http://packages.ubuntu.com/cgi-bin/search_contents.pl?word=libXm.so.3&searchmode=searchfiles&case=insensitive&version=dapper&arch=i386

actionparsnip:

I don't see why you think installing a 64 bit library is going to help me run a 32 bit executable.

My point was that ia32-libs is behind with respect to 32 bit libmotif3.so and I wanted to know how to fix ia32-libs.

then download the 32bit deb, extract it and copy it to /usr/lib32

Yes I knew from the beginning that I could do that. This question in pertaining to ia32-libs, which in my opinion is broken, how does a person fit that package with newer components?

Here's the command if you need it:

cd ~; wget http://hr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/multiverse/o/openmotif/libmotif3_2.2.3-4_i386.deb; dpkg -x ./libmotif3_2.2.3-4_i386.deb .; rm ./libmotif3_2.2.3-4_i386.deb; sudo mv ./usr/lib/libXm.so.3 /usr/lib32; rm -r ./usr

If you'd clicked the links on the page I gave you, you would have seen 32bit debs. You didn't have to get all shirty because my command was incorrect, you could have thought outside the box and said.

"that would install it in 64bit, but the link led me to a 32bit deb which I have now used"

ia32-libs only gives the ability to run 32bit apps, if there are any deps then yuo must satisy them manually. There is an app around whic can run apps and get their deps etc but I forget its name.

Sorry I guess I did change the subject of the question over time. Initially I seemed to be asking how to get this 3rd party software running. (I now have it running.)

Then later I asked how to rebuild ia32-libs. I did not say that I am a developer. But I am a developer, and I build packages for embedded distros.

If possible, it would now be nice to get an answer from a fellow developer that could tell me how to rebuild the ia32-libs package in the future, so that I know how to go fishing, although the current fish that you handed me is appreciated.

No worries dude, yeah i prefer to give rods than fish. Not sure on the compile side though dude. I thought it was a metapackage in which case you can modify the dependancies.

Otherwise not sure.