Re: Update Manager absurdity?- (FOLLOW-UP)

[Celejar <celejar@gmail.com>]

On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 19:02:31 -0600
Default User <xyzzyx@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

[snip]

> Doing "sudo du -BKB /lib64" does indeed show 2793kB in /libc64. Yikes!
> 
> Doing "sudo dpkg -l  libc64*" returns: "No packages found matching
> libc64*."  Since "sudo dpkg -l" returns a list of several hundred (at
> least) packages, I am guessing that the libc64* qualifier would list
> "64-bit" programs actually available to the system (and not just having
> files present on a hard drive).  Or something like that.  
> 
> I was absolutely stunned to learn that 64-bit code is made available to
> a 32-bit system, even if it's not used.  I'm too old for all this
> learning . . . 

Speaking of learning, you shouldn't be running 'du' and 'dpkg -l' with
sudo; they'll run just fine as a normal user.

Celejar