Re: simple question
On Sat, Aug 26, 2006 at 08:30:07PM +0200, Alexander Loob wrote:
> So but what is the sense of the libc6-amd64 package in the debian i386
> branch? Are these the optimized libraries for processors with the
> amd64 instruction set for use in a i386 debian installation? Or what is
> the sense of this package?
They are 64-bit libraries, used to run 64-bit programs on 64-bit
hardware, when the rest of the system is 32-bit. If you have a 32-bit
kernel, you don't need it.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery
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