Re: amd64 vs i386
On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 08:50:20PM -0400, Jose Luis Rivas Contreras wrote:
> pietia wrote:
> For me, amd64 is way much faster than i386, since ever.
> >
> > And what with missing packages like flash plugin ?
> >
> >
> I use flash plugin installed from official repositories:
>
> aptitude install flashplayer-mozilla
>
> Of course, from non-free but it works.
To use flash in amd64 in Etch you need an i386 chroot. In Lenny, there
is a pluginwrapper that solves it but it depends on a different libc
than Etch and the maintainer tells me that it can't be backported.
Note that the chroot once set up is quite simple. I have a button on my
icewm that runs
schroot -pc etch-ia32 /usr/bin/iceweasel
That's it. Flash is installed in that chroot.
The only downsides: the chroot takes up 432 MB, and its an extra system
to run aptitude update on occasionally (whenever a security announcement
comes out).
Doug.
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