In order to prepare the double-six movie as documented
earlier, I had to get povray running on IMSc's
fastest machine available for general use; that turned out to be
running the amd64 version of Debian and
povray is 32-bit only! Luckily, I found a write-up
on the Debian wiki that
helped me solve this problem with schroot.
Later, I read some letters to Linux Weekly News where people said that
Debian was hindering those who want to run flash and
other 32-bit programs on a 64-bit system. I couldn't let that
pass unchallenged!
Here then is
another write-up explaining how one can use schroot
to solve the above problems (and perhaps a number of others). The
Linux Gazette has also
published this in Issue
150 --- thanks Ben!