I'd like to use draftSight in a Debian Linux 64-bit environment. Is it possible? I downloaded the .deb file (Ubuntu). Ubuntu and Debian use the same package manager. This file trips up as it is looking for the 32-bit libgtk to show some intro screen (maybe the license agreement?). Anyway, doesn't work. I have the 64-bit version of the relevant library installed.

OK - I got this solved, Google is your friend.

I needed to add multiarch support to my Debian installation, from the command line:

sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install libgtk2.0-0:i386

sudo dpkg -i draftSight.deb

The above worked, I now have draftSight installed.

BTW, this is Debian testing, uname -a results in :

Linux WideBook 3.14-1-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.14.4-1 (2014-05-13) x86_64 GNU/Linux