Re: Going back to 32 bit from 64 bit

["Jarod Wilson" <user=74@nabble.blu.org>]

 On Oct 16, 2007, at 11:38, Jerry Feldman wrote: 

> 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.