Carl Reynolds wrote (about apt on x86-64): > Since it has x86_64 I guess I assumed it is for the 64 bit Fedora Core 3 > distribution. > Axel Thimm wrote: > It is and it works like a charm iff you avoid multilib, e.g. remove > all overlapping i386 packages. For servers that don't need openoffice > or HelixPlayer that's not a major loss. For non-maths speakers, "iff" isn't a misprint, it means "if and only if". In other words, you can use apt on x86-64 if and ONLY if you're not going to have any (overlapping) i386 packages. In practice, practically everything binary links against glibc. So unless you've got a specially-compiled "statically-linked" binary, that means no i386 packages. Having written that, some Debian folks seem to get on well with a chrooted installation of i386 binaries. One day, I might try that. James (on x86-64). -- James Wilkinson | DON'T be put off by "horror stories" spread by Exeter Devon UK | others. People who talk about death and serious E-mail address: james | injury are very rarely the ones who have actually @westexe.demon.co.uk | suffered such things. -- Adrian Plass
