Can I copy a cross compiler tool chain between systems (I did before)?

Question

I tested fairly extensively with Ubuntu 10.04 Beta 2 Server in a VM, and was able to simply copy (read tar x) a cross compiled tool chain from an Ubuntu 8.10 VM. I created the tar myself, which is essentially a lot of stuff in \usr\local.

Now that I've got a bare metal installation of Ubuntu 10.04 proper, the copy isn't working. In particularly, I'm getting the error:

$ arm-linux-gcc
-bash: /usr/local/bin/arm-linux-gcc: No such file or directory

I've got the systems side by side in SSH windows ... any suggestions?

Answer 1

Did you happen to switch to a 64 bit edition of Ubuntu 10.04?

If your VM was 32-bit and your real installation is 64-bit, you may still be able to get it to work by doing:

apt-get install linux32 ia32*