On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 23:48, Allan McRae wrote:

Hi all,

I was looking at the /lib64 folder and wondering what it is really needed for...  It just seems clutter to me on a pure x86_64 system (or even with a multilib in lib32 folders like we have). As far as I can tell, most things are perfectly fine without that folder and its two symlinks.

I would like some help testing removing this so I can get an idea of what issues people run into.  There is bound to be some software that makes assumptions about /lib64 in its installation and I would like to know (a) how widespread that issue is and (b) how hard it is to work around.

If you want to try it out, just remove the /lib64 folder (after making sure it only has symlinks to ld-2.13.so and ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 in it. Run your system as usual for a while and report any issues you come across.

Thanks, Allan

Allan: The binary version of VirtualBox from AUR fails without the /lib64 folder. I renamed the folder to /lib64.old, rebooted, the tried several apps. VBox was the only failure, so far. I tried reinstalling it and rebuilding the kernel modules to no avail. The message I get is: "no such executable. /opt/var/VirtualBox does not exist" From memory but very close. I get the same message when I try to run any of the virtualbox progs. The symlink in /usr/bin show to be broken. It shows an 'x' in the lower right corner. If I rename /lib64.old to /lib64 it runs with no problems. I haven't investigated any farther. Myra -- Life's fun when your sick and psychotic!

On Friday 01 Jul 2011 10:18:42 AM Allan McRae wrote:

If you want to try it out, just remove the /lib64 folder (after making sure it only has symlinks to ld-2.13.so and ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 in it. Run your system as usual for a while and report any issues you come across.

Never bothered to look into it before. But I already have only this. $ ls -al /lib64 total 8 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 जन 25 17:27 . drwxr-xr-x 29 root root 4096 जन 30 04:07 .. lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 जन 25 17:27 ld-2.14.so -> ../lib/ld-2.14.so lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 जन 25 17:27 ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 -> ../lib/ld- linux-x86-64.so.2 I am running full KDE desktop, virtualbox multiple VMs, multiple users(family members) but no multilib. The system was installed on dec 2009. I am using systemd since last 2 months, if that matters. -- Regards Shridhar