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> Thank you all for your answers (I'm not going to quote them all). A special |
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> thank to Duncan. |
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> I sure have to get more understanding of how to run 32bit apps on a 64bit |
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> distro - I am willing to learn but you'll probably have to suffer a lot of |
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> questions from me. But this does not seem to be a problem on this list :) |
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There is indeed no problem to run 32-bit, precompiled by gentoo, programs. |
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You just have to install a bunch of emulation libraries. There is no chroot |
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environment to set up or anything else. Openoffice-bin, mplayer-bin, firefox-bin |
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(if you need flash) all just run. |
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More needs to be done if you want to _compile_ 32-bit programs yourself. |
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Or if you use precompiled binaries not from gentoo, there is a chance they are |
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compiled against the libraries not in gentoo emul packages (but if they are |
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compiled statically - no problem again). |
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> I'll think it over again, but I think I'll go for a compromise (we swiss are |
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> well known for this way of doing, aren't we?): I have a working Mepis 32bit |
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> (the distribution I use on my "old" main machine. SO I'll probably build a |
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> 64bit Gentoo and I can switch the day I feel it works the way I like. |
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> Thanks again for your advices. |
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> Thierry |
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> The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be a |
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> capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the |
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> safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself? |
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> Frank Zappa |
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Dmitri Pogosyan Department of Physics |
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Associate Professor University of Alberta |
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tel 1-780-492-2150 412 Avadh Bhatia Physics Labs |
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