Re: Re: newby trying to go debian

[tomek.fizyk@op.pl]

Użytkownik Colin Baker <colin@colinbaker.org> napisał:
>32-bit firefox binaries work fine in debian amd64, which is nice because 
>you can use any of the 32-bit-only plugins with these.  I have a 32-bit 
>firefox running on my amd64 systems without a chroot, and flash and 
>mplayer-plugin work perfectly.

Does your 32bit firefox come from debian's repos or form mozilla.org?
And do I need those ia32libs to run it?

>I think some confustion may be with defining whether "official" means 
>there is an official binary from the vendor, or an official binary from 
>debian.

You're right...

>A lot of people here (myself included) prefer to maintain all 
>software on their system the "debian way".  For these people, the 
>existence of an official binary from the vendor is not important - as 
>long as there is a package from debian, that's good enough for me.
>

I also prefer Installing packages from Debian rather than vendor packaged
software;)

Tomek