Hi list,
Thanks for your replies.
I want to install 32-bit vlc, mplayer and xine on 64-bit CentOS system.
Will I need to install 32-bit versions of all dependencies,
32-bit libxine, libavcodec, etc.?
Will these 32-bit libraries work if I already installed
64-bit libavcodec?
Ilya Konstantinov wrote:
On Dec 19, 2007 9:32 AM, Moshe Gorohovsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
What is the prevailing opinion about installing and running
32-bit applications and shared libraries on 64-bit Linux
operating systems?
It's a perfectly okay thing to do.
Naturally it's a waste of memory (cause you end up loading similar sets
of libraries twice), but it's not a sin.
Do Red Hat based 64-bit operating systems support 32-bit
applications and shared libraries, but Debian based 64-bit
operating systems do not?
They both do. The 32-bit support is a kernel thing. IIRC, the userspace
facilities are a bit different: RedHat stores the 32-bit programs in the
same filesystem hierarchy as the 64-bit ones (/usr/lib vs. /usr/lib64)
whereas Debian shelves 32-bit binaries away in some chroot.
Also, at least as of two years ago, RPM supported installing multiple
architecture versions of a package whereas APT/dpkg did not (but 64-bit
Debian maintains the 32-bit stuff in a chroot so I guess it maintains
separate dpkg databases for it).
--
Moshe Gorohovsky
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