Running XAMPP in 64 bit Machine.

Unfortunately XAMPP or LAMPP doesn’t work on 64 bit machine if you ever tried to run it on 64 bit architecture you will get an error message saying

“XAMPP is currently only availably as 32 bit application. Please use a 32 bit compatibility library”

To fix this thing up in ubuntu edit

/etc/apt/sources.list uncomment all the lines “thats what i did because i am lame”

do sudo apt-get update

then  sudo apt-get install ia32-libs

and this is it.. You’re done now run sudo lampp start and it will work fine :)

Possibly related posts: (automatically generated)

~ by azimyasin on November 13, 2007.

Posted in APACHE MYSQL PHP, LAMP, Linux, XAMP
Tags: , , , , ,

23 Responses to “Running XAMPP in 64 bit Machine.”

  1. Were you trying to run a 32-bit application on a 64-bit Operating System running on a 64-bit architecture? If so, you’d naturally need the 32-bit libs for backwards compatibility.

    ayaz said this on November 20, 2007 at 8:47 am | Reply

  2. Yup thats what i did.. though the performance of the application running in 64bit os is nevertheless same but the question that comes into my mind is what actually the libs are performing like are they creating a simulation of 32bit arch on 64bit or some thing else? .

    azimyasin said this on November 20, 2007 at 2:20 pm | Reply

  3. The performance gain is marginal, since we don’t really have pure applications that leverage the advantages 64-bit arch provides. You can call it simulation. I have never seriously looked at 64-bit thingies, so I can’t give an informed opinion. Apparently, porting 32-bit code to 64-bit is a nightmare. It is fraught with lots of subtle problems that come up here and there. I will have to see what exactly these 32-bit libs do.

    ayaz said this on November 20, 2007 at 5:13 pm | Reply

  4. Thank you so much, Before nothing escuse my English, Im from Uruguay and my natal language is spanish.
    What you wrote work it really good for my laptop.
    I was frustrated because so much things are incompatible for my laptop…one less thank to you! ;-)

    Christian Serrón said this on December 23, 2007 at 6:22 pm | Reply

  5. Glad it helped Chritian! :)

    azimyasin said this on December 23, 2007 at 7:43 pm | Reply

  6. Thank you!

    Was searching on how to solve this problem!

    Many thanks ( from The Netherlands )

    Jaz said this on January 9, 2008 at 9:19 pm | Reply

  7. Anybody experiencing problems should install the libraries as pointed out here and also ensure that the “lampp” folder is placed into the “/opt” directory.

    0Degrees said this on January 25, 2008 at 9:40 pm | Reply

  8. Thanks! For some reason this information is missing on the XAMPP homepage.
    But uncommenting all lines in /etc/apt/sources.list does not make much sense. What you probably meant is that the “universe” Ubuntu repository is needed, because the package ia32-libs is in there (and “universe” is not enabled by default, AFAIK).
    Thanks again and happy coding :)

    Amarok said this on April 20, 2008 at 3:48 pm | Reply

  9. I did it. It works! Thanks. :)

    Romeu Pavan said this on May 13, 2008 at 12:46 am | Reply

  10. Thanks from BraSil ;D

    hawshinka said this on May 24, 2008 at 10:40 pm | Reply

  11. I still get the same error with ubuntu 8.04 ! Please help

    Turbide said this on June 8, 2008 at 3:42 pm | Reply

  12. Thanks sooo much!!!
    I was looking everywhere, and I hadn’t ofund a good way to do it. Commenting those liens helped a lot!
    cheers!

    saiphcita said this on June 25, 2008 at 6:46 pm | Reply

  13. [...] 方法参考的文章：http://azimyasin.wordpress.com/2007/11/13/running-xampp-in-64-bit-machine/ [...]

    在64位的服务器上安装AMP | 老牛向前行 | 刘志健 said this on August 13, 2008 at 3:37 pm | Reply

  14. Thank you very much (terima kasih bayak). Your write help my problem. And for my problem i no need to modify /etc/sources.lit. Just stright forward install ia32-libs as you mention.

    Thanks.

    durahman said this on August 27, 2008 at 8:08 am | Reply

  15. thanks a lot, i got same problem. this fix my error..

    daori said this on December 10, 2008 at 11:44 am | Reply

  16. Thanks from mars. :)

    Jio said this on January 5, 2009 at 6:21 pm | Reply

  17. Ehrm…

    jesus@beteigeuze:~$ apt-cache policy ia32-libs
    ia32-libs:
    Installed: 2.2ubuntu11
    Candidate: 2.2ubuntu11
    Version table:
    *** 2.2ubuntu11 0
    500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/universe Packages
    500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-security/universe Packages
    100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
    2.2ubuntu10 0
    500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/universe Packages

    first of all it is possible under 8.04, ubuntu, no problems found

    secondly: ia32-libs is located in universe wich SHOULD be decommented by default, so their should be NO problem in installing…

    thanks for the tip! thanks for listinin

    Poor Insane said this on February 20, 2009 at 12:34 am | Reply

  18. Anyone figure out how to solve this problem for Red Hat? (RHEL)

    Meesha said this on April 9, 2009 at 11:05 pm | Reply

  19. ..

    Updateme said this on April 9, 2009 at 11:06 pm | Reply

  20. Anyone do this for RHEL (RedHat)?

    Meesha said this on April 9, 2009 at 11:07 pm | Reply

  21. How should we do this on 64bit RHEL?
    apt-get does seem to work for RHEL

    fremont said this on June 12, 2009 at 3:41 pm | Reply

  22. how about Fedora core 10 ?
    I have done yum update (all of package in Fedora updated)
    then yum install ia32-libs but it not work

    Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
    Setting up Install Process
    No package ia32-libs available.
    Nothing to do

    help me please..
    thanks.

    sifa said this on July 23, 2009 at 2:49 am | Reply

Leave a Reply