Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on September 15, 2006 07:56 AM
I've installed the 64-bit version of Fedora Core ever since it supported the platform and it does quite a clever job of automatically installing 32-bit libraries (in<nobr> <wbr></nobr>/lib) in addition to 64-bit ones (/lib64). It can then install mostly 64-bit apps, but switch to 32-bit apps if there is no 64-bit version yet (e.g. OpenOffice.org).
The "yum" updater also knows about the two architectures, though I find it confusing when you do "rpm -qa | grep lib | sort" and end up with two copies (32-bit and 64-bit) of a lot of libraries and no indication of the bitness of the libraries!
One sticking point is actually Firefox because if you want to use a third-party 32-bit plug-in (64-bit plug-ins from third parties are virtually non-existent<nobr> <wbr></nobr>:-( ) such as Flash, you actually have to hunt around for 32-bit Firefox because Fedora installs the 64-bit one by default.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on September 15, 2006 07:56 AMThe "yum" updater also knows about the two architectures, though I find it confusing when you do "rpm -qa | grep lib | sort" and end up with two copies (32-bit and 64-bit) of a lot of libraries and no indication of the bitness of the libraries!
One sticking point is actually Firefox because if you want to use a third-party 32-bit plug-in (64-bit plug-ins from third parties are virtually non-existent<nobr> <wbr></nobr>:-( ) such as Flash, you actually have to hunt around for 32-bit Firefox because Fedora installs the 64-bit one by default.
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