Re: Debian on Core2Duo 64bit
On Wed, 31 Oct 2007 22:59:29 -0400
Jose Luis Rivas Contreras <ghostbar38@gmail.com> wrote:
> Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 10:29:35PM +0100, P?l Cs?nyi wrote:
> >> 2007/10/31, Jose Luis Rivas Contreras <ghostbar38@gmail.com>:
> >>> Semih Gokalp wrote:
> >>>> Hi.
> >>>>
> >>>> Which debian dist should I install on core2duo 64 bit pcu? x86 or amd64 ?
> >>> amd64.
> >> amd64 is not only for the AMD processors?
> >>
> >> I have an Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU6320 @ 1.86GHz
> >>
> >> Should I install too the amd64 Debian distribution on this system?
> >>
> >
> > As long as you don't want to run one of the (couple of) third-party apps
> > that need i396 in Etch without also putting in an i386 chroot. Note,
> > that many 32-bit apps will actually run in amd64 with the 32-bit libs
> > package. I don't know about acroread since I don't use it. Iceweasel
> > 32-bit with flashplayer needed a chroot. A chroot isn't much to set up
> > or maintain.
>
> It's not needed anymore at least in sid with flashplayer, in fact,
> there's a package in debian-multimedia.org that makes all the work for
> you, I mean, the configuration of the wrapper.
>
> Regards,
> Jose Luis.
The only think that didn't work either directly or the 32bit libraries for
amd64 was skype that required downloading the static version and then I also
needed to pull a library from another package, don't remember which one at the
moment
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