On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 12:03 -0600, Default User wrote: > I am running Debian Etch-testing on an old i586 system with a 32-bit AMD > K6-2 processor. Update Manager just did its daily check, showing 22 > available updates. Among them was libc6-amd64, which the description > states is a 64-bit library "meant for AMD64 systems". >
After installing the updates (including libc6-amd64), the system was rebooted and *seems* to be running okay. Whew! Doing "sudo du -BKB /lib64" does indeed show 2793kB in /libc64. Yikes! Doing "sudo dpkg -l libc64*" returns: "No packages found matching libc64*." Since "sudo dpkg -l" returns a list of several hundred (at least) packages, I am guessing that the libc64* qualifier would list "64-bit" programs actually available to the system (and not just having files present on a hard drive). Or something like that. I was absolutely stunned to learn that 64-bit code is made available to a 32-bit system, even if it's not used. I'm too old for all this learning . . . -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
