I didn’t run the installer as outlined in the post, but the method for 32bit library extraction is by far the easiest and the least likely to break your install. Instead of installing, I untar it somewhere and add a `bcomp` shell script which sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH and then runs bcompare.
Best way to install BeyondCompare in 64bit Ubuntu
November 9th, 2009 | 64-bit, Applications, Linux