Install Humble Indie Bundle 32 bit games on Fedora 14 (x86_64)

I am a big fan of the Humble Bundle effort. They are supporting good causes, promoting independent game development, and helping to bring independent games to Linux.

That said, a lot of the games they promote have been recently ported to Mac and/or Linux. As a result, not all of them are quite as optimized as they could be for Linux. Anyway, I was looking forward to a few of the games from HIB #3, and as I downloaded the installers, I got a lot of this:

All this is really saying is that you are trying to build a 32 bit program, but you do not have 32 bit libraries. How do you install these libraries? Ask yum.

On Fedora you want the glibc package, but for the i686 architecture. You can request the explicit package returned by yum whatprovides, or just:

Now run your installer, and get back to gaming.

[UPDATE]

Unless you really wanted to play those games. In which case, you also need the i686 architecture SDL and SDL_mixer. If you load HammerFight (on 64 bit Fedora, at least), it tries to launch, and silently fails. Awesome. I then tried Cogs, which gives you the following error:

Funny. I could swear I am reading this output on one of my available video devices. Checking the SDL on 64 bit Fedora, sure enough version 1.2 is installed by default. I tried adding the devel packages, but this did not seem to help. Next game, VVVVVV. After extracting the tarball, I am greeted pleasantly with executable VVVVVV_32 and VVVVVV_64. Nice, I will just run this, and:

All right, this is getting a little old.

So the 64 bit VVVVVV script wants to use the 32 bit SDL mixer (which requires the 32 bit SDL)? Whatever…

Still no luck. I stumbled into this, and thought it would be worth a shot:

And Crayon Physics wanted:

One more thing:

Cogs works.