Re: multiarch/bi-arch status (ETA) question
- To: Latchezar Dimitrov <ldimitro@wfubmc.edu>
- Cc: Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>, David Wood <obsidian@panix.com>, Hugo Mills <hugo-64@carfax.org.uk>, Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>, debian-amd64@lists.debian.org
- Subject: Re: multiarch/bi-arch status (ETA) question
- From: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>
- Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2005 19:54:06 -0400
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* Latchezar Dimitrov (ldimitro@wfubmc.edu) wrote:
> > What's the reason for having both versions of a given app installed?
> > I'm pretty sure it was decided that was a bad idea and that
> > there wasn't any good use case for it and so we weren't going
> > to try and support it.
> > It just doesn't make sense.
>
> The only reason is to be able to run both of them at your discretion.
apt-get install A::amd64;
Should automatically uninstall the i386 version of A and install the
amd64 version.
Thanks,
Stephen
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