On Saturday 27 February 2010 09:21:35 pm Suvayu Ali wrote: > On 27/02/10 07:05 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > > ... > > version of it (yet). Later on I tainted it again when installing > > dependencies for Wolfram Mathematica package I use. > > > > If there weren't for closed source software which depends on 32bit > > libraries, I'd be having a clean 64bit-only system. > > I run F11 x86_64 and there are *zero* 32 bit libraries on my machine. I > recently installed Mathematica from the Wolfram supplied binary for a > friend. I however did not need to install any 32 bit dependencies. Are > you sure about their dependence on 32 bit libraries? Umm, well, yes, I needed this specifically: compat-libstdc++-33-3.2.3-68.i686 This package provides libstdc++.so.5 which is needed by Mma 6.0.3. Maybe in F11 this library is elsewhere, or you have a different version of Mma which doesn't depend on it. I remember that Mma installation script refused to complete until I installed both 64bit and 32bit versions of compat-libstdc++. First it complained about the missing library, and after I installed the 64bit version it complained again about the same library still missing. After I installed 32bit version, the script completed with no problems. Maybe this can be avoided somehow, but it wasn't obvious to me. Or maybe Mma was just looking for the library in /usr/lib instead of /usr/lib64, which would account as a bug, possibly resolved in version 7? I didn't have enough time to look into all that seriously, I just kept installing things until it was happy. And given that I already had cca 80 or so 32bit packages as dependencies for skype, one more for Mma doesn't make much difference anyway. ;-) Best, :-) Marko -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
