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Re: Debian on Core2Duo 64bit

From: Jose Luis Rivas Contreras <ghostbar38(at)gmail.com>
Date: Wed Oct 31 2007 - 22:59:29 EDT

Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 10:29:35PM +0100, P?l Cs?nyi wrote:

>> 2007/10/31, Jose Luis Rivas Contreras :
>>> Semih Gokalp wrote:
>>>> Hi.
>>>>
>>>> Which debian dist should I install on core2duo 64 bit pcu? x86 or amd64 ?
>>> amd64.
>> amd64 is not only for the AMD processors?
>>
>> I have an Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU6320  @ 1.86GHz
>>
>> Should I install too the amd64 Debian distribution on this system?
>>

>
> As long as you don't want to run one of the (couple of) third-party apps
> that need i396 in Etch without also putting in an i386 chroot. Note,
> that many 32-bit apps will actually run in amd64 with the 32-bit libs
> package. I don't know about acroread since I don't use it. Iceweasel
> 32-bit with flashplayer needed a chroot. A chroot isn't much to set up
> or maintain.

It's not needed anymore at least in sid with flashplayer, in fact, there's a package in debian-multimedia.org that makes all the work for you, I mean, the configuration of the wrapper.

Regards,
Jose Luis.

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