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http://www.osnews.com/comments/22116?view=flat&sort=&threshold=4 Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 4th
Sep 2009 23:45 UTC, submitted by Andrew Weber
 "If you're running
newer hardware, there are some definite advantages
to installing a 64-bit operating system. But, if you still need to run
any 32-bit applications, you'll need to have the 32-bit support
libraries installed. Different Linux distros handle this in different
ways. For 64-bit Ubuntu, finding the proper 32-bit support packages is
a simple matter of opening up the Synaptic Package Manager, and
searching for the string 'ia32'. With 64-bit openSuSE, 32-bit support
is already built-in, so you don't have to do anything. With Fedora,
though, it's a whole different story. Not only are the 32-bit packages
not already installed, the Fedora folk don't provide any documentation
on how to install them. The directions I found via Google were
outdated, and wouldn't work. I finally resolved the problem by sking
a Red Hat employee in my local Linux Users Group." |
