[StarCluster] 32-bit executable binary files on 64-bit platform

[David Mrva]

Hello,

I have 32-bit binaries that I need to run on my StarCluster (which uses 
64-bit Ubuntu 13.04 AMIs). After some searching I found that I can run 
32-bit binaries after executing these lines in an terminal on the master:
sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libc6:i386

However, when I list libc6:i386 in the package installer plugin to 
ensure that all my cluster nodes have the required package, "starcluster 
start" ends with an error and the generated crash report ends with:

....
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File 
"/home/davidm/scenv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/starcluster/threadpool.py", 
line 48, in run
     job.run()
   File 
"/home/davidm/scenv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/starcluster/threadpool.py", 
line 80, in run
     r = self.method(self.args, **self.kwargs)
   File 
"/home/davidm/scenv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/starcluster/node.py", 
line 1148, in apt_install
     self.apt_command('install %s' % pkgs)
   File 
"/home/davidm/scenv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/starcluster/node.py", 
line 1138, in apt_command
     self.ssh.execute(cmd)
   File 
"/home/davidm/scenv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/starcluster/sshutils.py", line 
578, in execute
     msg, command, exit_status, out_str)
RemoteCommandFailed: remote command 'source /etc/profile && 
DEBIAN_FRONTEND='noninteractive' apt-get -o 
Dpkg::Options::='--force-confnew' -y --force-yes install libc6:i386' 
failed with status 100:
Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
E: Unable to locate package libc6

Is there a way of installing packages for i386 platform on a 64-bit 
nodes with the package installer plugin? Or is my only hope a custom 
plugin? I should mention that most of my executables are 64-bit and the 
32-bit binaries are from a third-party package compiled from source that 
compiles as 32-bit even on 64-bit machines.

Many thanks,
David