The package "ikarus", another programming language implementation,
also requires SSE2 support.
There is a check in the preinst script which aborts installation if
sse2 is unavailable.
case "$1" in
install|upgrade)
if egrep -q '^flags[[:space:]]*:.*\bsse2\b' /proc/cpuinfo; then
# echo CPU instruction set extension sse2 confirmed
true
else
echo "error: CPU flag sse2 not found, aborting installation"
exit 1
fi
;;
Cheers,
--Barak.