On 12/8/2005, "Neil Bothwick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Wed, 07 Dec 2005 08:30:10 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: > >> I'm about to install gentoo on an athlon64. Is there enough 64 bit >> software and other good reasons to use the 64 bit version? > >Almost everything has 64 bit versions, and those that don't, you can run >as 32 bit. The main problem is proprietary plugins, so use firefox-bin to >get the 32 bit compiled version, then you can install the plugins. 32 bit >plugins won't work with a Firefox compiled for 64 bit. >
But surely if you emerge firefox-bin on a amd64 system it will, by default, install the 64 bit version of the application? Or is there a magic trick to getting it to use 32 bit? > >-- >Neil Bothwick > >Run with scissors. Remove mattress tags. Top post. Be a rebel. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
