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Re: 32bit binaries run on pure64!?



On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 08:15:49PM +0100, Hannes Mayer wrote:
> I just installed pure64 on a spare disk for testing.
> In order to connect to the net, I got a tar.gz from my provider with
> precompiled binaries of dhcpcd, pptp, and pppd and some scripts. It
> works very well on sarge (32bit) but surprisingly enough those
> binaries also work on pure64!
> 
> How come that 32bit binaries run on pure64 without any chroot or the
> ia32 libs installed ?
> 
> Note: No ia32 libs installed:
> # dpkg -l ia32\*

Well dhcpcd and pppd certainly exist in debian packages (which would
hence be far preferable to use).  As for pptp, it probably exists too,
but I am not sure how good the support in linux is for that since it is
not widely used nor considered a very good protocol to use.  You would
certainly need some 32bit libs installed if the binaries aren't compiled
staticly.

Len Sorensen



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