On Sunday 31 August 2008 11:22:08 Matt Graham wrote:
> After a long battle with technology, wayne wrote:
> [much snippage]
>
> > While on this subject - I notice that 32bit apps return a "Wrong
> > Architecture" error when I try to install them. 64 bit processors
> > normally WILL run 32 bit goodies, at least I always thought so. Since
> > I've switched from the 32 to 64 bit version of Kubuntu, I see alot of
> > compatibility issues like the one I currently have. Is there something I
> > am missing?
>
> You have to install the compatability and emulation libs for 32-bit apps. 
> I don't know what they're called on Ubuntu.  Gentoo installs them by
> default; other distros can be ... less good in that regard.  I don't know
> why this is so, but it's sure there.
>
> Currently, there's no benefit and a number of drawbacks to using x86_64,
> unless you're using something that needs to malloc() more than 4G of RAM.
> That's why I'm still using i686 on my desktop.

ia32-libs

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