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I've been using Linux in general for several years, but I've never played with programming etc. My question is the following. I would like to install a x32bit program on my x64bit computer but I could't find any way around it (Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, Arch, Manjaro), at some point something just doesn't work. I'm referring to Diogenes tool (https://community.dur.ac.uk/p.j.heslin/Software/Diogenes/linux_install.php). As an ancient Greek teacher I use it extremely often but I manage to run it only into some Win. VBox and I try to avoid that, if possible.

Is it any way to make it x64bit compatible? And can be carried out, after following some instructions, by a non programmer?

Edit: I was about to delete the question, but I wanted to point out that the "Diogenes project" is, once again, alive and rewritten for modern software (thanks to Peter Heslin from Durham University). It can be found here (open-source).

Thanos
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As mentioned in some of the comments on previously posted answers, and on the question above, the version of Diogenes that exists will not work on modern perl, and as you've noted, the 32-bit x86 only binary front-end based on xulrunner is problematic. So, to be helpful, I've went and created a slight fork of the code, and tweaked it slightly to run on modern perl, and use some more modern conventions (XDG config/runtime directories), as well as implemented a simple front-end based on QtWebEngine, that can run on any architecture.

You can grab a tarball from https://github.com/dobey/diogenes-ng/releases/tag/0.3.2.0.2 and install it, to see if it works for your needs. I'd suggest keeping the VM on hand, just in case something goes wrong, as I don't really know the code well, or how it's supposed to be used, so I haven't really tested it too extensively. If you find an issue, feel free to open one at https://github.com/dobey/diogenes-ng/issues and explain what went wrong.

dobey
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All this is deprecated now (Fall 2019). A new, official version of Diogenes (4.0) is now available. It's 64bit and works like a charm. Adress : https://d.iogen.es/d/index.html

Onesimos
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