20 Feb
2010
20 Feb
'10
11:21 p.m.
On 02/20/2010 04:03 PM, Heiko Baums wrote:
Am Sat, 20 Feb 2010 14:25:11 -0700 schrieb Brendan Long <korin43@gmail.com>:
Why not just install the 32 bit version then? 64 bit Linux can run 32 bit programs..
No, it can't. This is only possible with multilib (lib32-*) support. So you need to install every library twice to be able to run 32 bit software.
Greetings, Heiko
Having the 32 bit libraries as well is what I meant. You don't need all of the 32 bit libraries, just the ones your propriety software needs (and that generally won't take up that much disk space). What I don't understand is why propriety software for Linux isn't just always released as a monolithic binary with no depends..