On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 02:28:36PM +0000, Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 26 Jun 2012 23:20:05 +0200, Claudius Hubig wrote: > > > Hello Hans-J., > > > > "Hans-J. Ullrich" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On my 64-bit system I am using only very few applications, which are > >> still 32- bit. For example wine, skype, x-plane and a few others. > > > >> So, as my old configuration is still working fine, but I am always > >> intending to improve my system, what is the best (debian)-way for my > >> needs? > > > > It works quite nicely over here on a testing/sid system with the > > following packages: > > (...) > > In the Spanish mailing list, a user reported a few days ago that he > completely messed up his full wheezy system when he tried to install Wine > in his 64-bits installation. Apparently, the library mix went so bad that > he wanted to completely reinstall wheezy from scratch but this time using > a 32-bits flavour because all the mess. > > I suggested him to open a bug report because there should no problems > with multiarch, or at least not the kind of problems that lead the users > to think in a complete OS reinstallation. > > To be sincere, I'm a bit reluctant about the multiarch system. I would > prefer playing with it on virtual/testing machines and not yet over > production systems.
In my experience, Multiarch is usable, but still a little buggy. I run sid and update about daily using aptitude. There were a few days when wine-unstable's packaging was a bit broken, but it seems to have settled down now. From that, I learned that aptitude's resolver isn't quite ready for multiarch just yet; it works in the majority of cases, but sometimes it wants to remove all your i386 packages and you have to fix (usually hold for a few days) the broken package yourself. But that's the joy of sid. To the OP, I would suggest that, if a 32-bit chroot works for you, then there's probably no need to switch: you get that added security of running the program in a chroot. Alternatively, if you want to switch, http://wiki.debian.org/Multiarch/HOWTO should be what you need. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
