On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 11:55:12AM +0200, Martins Steinbergs wrote: > On Thursday 08 December 2005 11:01, Mrugesh Karnik wrote: > > On Thursday 08 December 2005 05:41, Jamie Dobbs wrote: > > > 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? > > > > AFAIK, firefox-bin, thunderbird-bin, mplayer-bin and openoffice-bin are all > > 32 bit. I don't know of any other bin packages in portage. But it makes > > perfect sense to keep the 32 bit bin packages in portage. > > > > Regards, > > Mrugesh > > how about Opera? what is proper way to determin is it 32 or 64 app? there > isn't such thing as opera-bin in portage however it must be 32 bit. i keep > it'cause works with netscape-flash. Try the command file on your opera binary, and it will says to you if its an elf 32 or 64 bit. there is no opera-bin in portage because opera exist only in binary so we dont care about it. Sorry for my english im french !!!
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