32 bit apps under AMD64 Fedora
Chris Kloiber
ckloiber at ckloiber.com
Sat Jun 5 16:05:24 UTC 2004
On Sat, 2004-06-05 at 05:40, tjnews at tolisgroup.com wrote:
> Hi Tom,
>
> Thanks for the response. So this implies that the default kernel doesn't have
> this set and that the libraries aren't installed by default. Uh, why not (and
> I know you're not the distro maintainer)?? One would think that providing the
> highest level of out-of-the-box compatibility would be very important.
>
> Tim
>
> Quoting Thomas Zehetbauer <thomasz at hostmaster.org>:
>
> > You need to have CONFIG_IA32_EMULATION enabled in the kernel and the
> > necessary 32-bit libraries installed, especially glibc which includes
> > the library loader.
> >
> > Tom
I have no issue running most 32-bit programs under the x86_64 kernel.
Even Codeweavers office (wine) works for standalone applications but not
as a mozilla plugin. I did an "@ Everything" install.
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Chris Kloiber
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