Re: I need explanation on the design of debian-amd64.

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

icamargo@unet.edu.ve writes:

> Hi!
>
> I would like to ask this:
>...
> Is there any way in wich I can have both kind of libraries in my system?,
> I mean, something like this:
>
> lib  : 32bits libraries.
> lib64: 64bits libraries.
>
> and have almost all of my system running 64bits binaries (except by:
> openoffice, doom3, mplayer with w32 codecs, you name it).

Pure64 is primarily made only for 64 bit. Any 32bit support comes as
an afterthought. Because of various reasons lib64 is a link to lib so
your idea won't work.

But there is no problem with your idea, just with the directory
names. You can use /emul/ia32-linux/lib (as the ia32-libs,
ia32-libs-dev and ia32-libs-openoffice.org packages already do). The
drawback of this method is that you can't just "apt-get install
foobar" to install a 32bit package.

> This way, I could have a true hybrid system, with some 32bits binaries and
> some 64bits binaries sharing the same filesystem and hardware devices,
> without the need of "duplicated" binaries.
>
> Please, somebody correct me if I'm geting things wrong.
>
> Thanks in advance for your help, and keep up the good work!
>
> Ildefonso.

MfG
        Goswin