Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: 64 or 32?

[Dmitri Pogosyan]

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