Linux on an AMD64 box...

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 04:11:24AM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
> This is the most pragmatic solution.  I'm not always pragmatic.
> 
> I run 64-bit Fedora.  It can run 64-bit and 32-bit programs: both sets
> of shared libraries are installed.  Even this isn't as clean as you'd
> like, at least for firefox.  When you install Firefox, you get the
> 64-bit version.  It is tough to replace it with a 32-bit version
> because several things depend on it (at least in my system -- things
> like Eclipse).  I've installed both, but the startup of Firefox
> detects if you have one already running and uses it instead of a new
> one.  So you cannot trivially have both running at once.  And I always
> seem to have one running already.
> 
> Debian does not yet support "multiarch".  Hence Debian 64-bit users,
> if they need to run 32-bit programs, do so in a chroot environment.  I
> would *guess* that this is an effort to set up.

Yeah it takes like 10 or 15 minutes to do following the howto.  There
are a few tricks for a few programs to deal with, but for most things it
works fine.

I actually run 32bit debian on an amd64, with a 64bit kernel, and then
64bit debian in a chroot.

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Len Sorensen
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