Re: Upgrading i686 vs. x86_64. Just checking !

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On 28/02/10 04:59 AM, Marko Vojinovic wrote:
> 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
> ...
>
> 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

Thats it! I installed Mathematica 7. Maybe they fixed the issue. AFAIK 
the installer script supposedly supports both architectures.

> Best, :-)
> Marko

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