Re: [MLUG] any improvements in 64-bit Linux support (under Ubuntu)?

["Mark Rages" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On 10/8/07, Jonathan King <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> We've got a 64-bit AMD system running Feisty Fawn at home, and it was
> (relatively speaking) hell on wheels to get things set up due to the
> lack of support for 64-bit architectures. Is this expected to change
> in the near future? If not, how much would we be missing if we just
> went for everything under the 32-bit world in Gutsy Goldfish (or
> whatever)? In particular, Flash is *still* not 64-bit, which is a
> major pain, and it looks like you would still need both 32 and 64 bit
> tool-chains to get everything else you might want compiled correctly.
>
> jking

I'm running a 64-bit system with an old Fedora 4 install.  Setting up
32-bit applications was ridiculously easy.  Set up the 32-bit
repository in yum.conf and yum install firefox.x86.  The dependency
resolution pulled in all the 32-bit libraries (X, GTK, etc) and set up
firefox for me.

I would be surprised if a similar solution didn't exist for apt /
Ubuntu.  You shouldn't be compiling things yourself; there are
well-tested 32-bit packages of the whole distribution.  Have you asked
in their excellent support forums?

Regards,
Mark
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Mark Rages, Engineer
Midwest Telecine LLC
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