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-          <key>linux32</key>
-          <map>
-            <key>md5sum</key>
-            <string>cb800ce00f9a5bdeff3371f14481fa38</string>
-            <key>url</key>
-            <uri>http://s3.amazonaws.com/viewer-source-downloads/install_pkgs/zlib-1.2.3-linux-i686-gcc-4.1-20080915.tar.bz2</uri>
-          </map>
           <key>linux64</key>
           <map>
             <key>md5sum</key>
diff --git a/scripts/install.py b/scripts/install.py
index 8583b6c534..5069918bee 100755
--- a/scripts/install.py
+++ b/scripts/install.py
@@ -780,17 +780,6 @@ def _get_platform():
             # os/arch/compiler/compiler_version then we can replace the 
             # 'linux64' platform with 'linux/x86_64/gcc/4.1'
             this_platform = 'linux64'
-        else:
-            gcc_version = os.popen("g++ -dumpversion", 'r').read()
-            if gcc_version[:3] == '4.1':
-                # the 'linux32' platform is a HACK until we can figure
-                # out how to make the install.py script accept a platform of
-                # the form os/arch/compiler/compiler_version for the download
-                # and extract stage
-                #this_platform = 'linux/i686/gcc/4.1'
-                # NOTE: disabled linux32 as it hasn't been tested well
-                #this_platform = 'linux32'
-                this_platform = this_platform
     return this_platform
 
 def _getuser():