Re: Going back to 32 bit from 64 bit

["Jerry Feldman-2" <user=4@nabble.blu.org>]

 On Tue, 16 Oct 2007 09:52:56 -0400 
Jarod Wilson <[hidden email]> wrote: 

> A very important distinction to make here: some distributions   
> (including Fedora) have gone to great lengths to try to sanely   
> support multi-arch (mixing of 64-bit and 32-bit applications/ 
> libraries/etc), while others (including Ubuntu) simply punted and   
> require you to set up a chroot to run anything 32-bit on top of a 64- 
> bit environment. Thus its possible to run pretty much any 32-bit   
> userspace application on a 64-bit Fedora install with minimal effort. 

Hi Jarod, 
I was wondering if you could elaborate a bit more on this. As I have a 
few 32-bit things running on Ubuntu 64. Certainly one of the things you 
need is to have both the 32-bit as well as 64-bit libraries. As I 
documented, this morning I installed wine, which is a 32-bit 
executable. 

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