Problems with rpm database
James Wilkinson
james at westexe.demon.co.uk
Fri Feb 25 13:21:33 UTC 2005
Carl Reynolds wrote (about apt on x86-64):
> Since it has x86_64 I guess I assumed it is for the 64 bit Fedora Core 3
> distribution.
>
Axel Thimm wrote:
> It is and it works like a charm iff you avoid multilib, e.g. remove
> all overlapping i386 packages. For servers that don't need openoffice
> or HelixPlayer that's not a major loss.
For non-maths speakers, "iff" isn't a misprint, it means "if and only
if".
In other words, you can use apt on x86-64 if and ONLY if you're not
going to have any (overlapping) i386 packages.
In practice, practically everything binary links against glibc. So
unless you've got a specially-compiled "statically-linked" binary,
that means no i386 packages.
Having written that, some Debian folks seem to get on well with a
chrooted installation of i386 binaries. One day, I might try that.
James (on x86-64).
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