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Re: Managing to get the 4 RAM GiB recognized easily



Am Montag, 20. August 2012 schrieb Gaël DONVAL:
> Le jeudi 16 août 2012 à 09:29 +0300, Andrei POPESCU a écrit :
> > On Mi, 15 aug 12, 14:50:37, Gary Dale wrote:
> > > On 15/08/12 02:13 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> > > >Another option not mentioned yet is to install the -amd64 kernel
> > > >(assuming the CPU supports it). Works just fine for me.
> > > 
> > > It works, but why not just upgrade to full 64 bit if you can? It's
> > > not a lot more work unless you've installed a lot of extra
> > > packages.
> > 
> > The upgrade requires a reinstall and I'm not sure my 2 GB RAM are
> > worth it. Besides, I'm still using skype from time to time, which is
> > a pain to install on amd64.
> 
> Debian Wheezy has now a full support for multi-arch (well... if you use
> apt-get... last time I tried, aptitude failed). Some stuffs may need to
> be ironed out but as far as I am concerned, skype works very well with
> all the dependencies under my debian 32/64bits hybrid. All you need to
> do is adding [arch=amd64,i386] between deb and your mirror URL
> in /etc/apt/source.list

Works just fine here with Skype and PCSX2 ;). While with Skype I think it 
also installs some old ia32-libs package due to the dependencies in the 
Skype package.

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