If you have experienced the error while trying to run an executable on debian: "bash: <executable>: No such file or directory". Then you may not have the arch libraries required for running 32bit binaries.

1. In the terminal type:

file example #where example is the name of the binary

Output: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV) #hence you need 32bit dynamic linker and other dependencies

2.

sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386

3.

sudo apt update -y

4.

sudo apt install libc6:i386 libncurses5:i386 libstdc++6:i386

Congratulations you can now run 32bit binaries on your 64bit system.

I wrote this because debians website is not direct on how to do this. I don't know why. Here is a reference to their site:

https://wiki.debian.org/Multiarch/HOWTO

https://www.publish0x.com?a=3YaOPqMLbx