downloaded business package *seems* to want 32-bit library

[Robert P. J. Day]

  (embarrassed that i figure i should know how to resolve this, but
i'm still puzzled.)

  a friend asked me to install and just see if i could run the BIRT
business reporting package, so i went here:

http://download.eclipse.org/birt/downloads/build.php?build=R-R1-2_6_2-201102191842

and grabbed the "Report Designer Full Eclipse Install for Linux",
which is allegedly *everything* one needs to run this package.

  downloaded it, untarred it, cd'ed into the top level, and simply
invoked the obvious "eclipse" executable, which gave me a java error
dialog and the following command-line diagnostic:

$ ./eclipse
/usr/lib/gio/modules/libgvfsdbus.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64
Failed to load module: /usr/lib/gio/modules/libgvfsdbus.so
$

  i've never seen an error msg of this type before but it didn't take
long to deduce that this seems to be complaining about the wrong
architecture of that library.  this is a 64-bit system, with a 64-bit
OS installed (fully-updated ubuntu 10.10).  so is that telling me it
wants the 32-bit library?

  a quick readelf shows:

$ readelf -h /usr/lib/gio/modules/libgvfsdbus.so
ELF Header:
  Magic:   7f 45 4c 46 02 01 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
  Class:                             ELF64
  ... snip ...

and that's what i expected.  so what would the problem be here?  do i
need to install the corresponding 32-bit compatibility libs?

rday

p.s.  if anyone else wants to download and install that package, it
would be nice to verify that they get the same issue.

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