Help with packages

[Panu Matilainen]

On Tue, 2004-03-09 at 22:59, Mike Snitzer wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 08 2004 at 10:29,
> Jesse Keating <jkeating at j2solutions.net> wrote:
> 
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> > On Monday 08 March 2004 08:30, Wayne ward wrote:
> > > I use alsa and also use xmms-mp3
> > > Xmule would be a bonus.
> > > And will apt work??
> > 
> > Ok, so these are all 3rd party rpms.  You can wait for the thirdparty 
> > people to start building x86_64 versions, or you can grab the src.rpm 
> > and build them yourself.  At this time, I don't believe that apt is 
> > x86_64 friendly.
> 
> FYI, APT works great on x86_64; with rhel3, suse9pro, and sles8.

The "non-x86_64 friendliness" Jesse is referring to is the lack of
multilib support (currently) in apt. Just got an Opteron box today so
haven't had time to look into it yet :)

	- Panu -