On 03/20/2016 06:45 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > One of the problems I have is architecture related, synaptic thinks for > some unfathomable to me reason, that this is an i386 machine. But its > not, currently running kernel 3.16.0-0.bpo.4-amd64, and no currently > installed 32 bit application has a problem. > > But now all the browser coders have thrown i386 machines under the bus, > and I'm apparently stuck with the broken i386 stuff left behind. > > How can I convince the package managers to search for x86_64 stuff in the > repos and install it.
Since you are using a backports 3.16 kernel, I assume you are using Wheezy, which already understands Multi-Arch. In that case, just do dpkg --add-architecture amd64 That will add 'amd64' as a secondary architecture to your system and you can install packages from there (at least those that are co-installable with your current set of packages). Note that you need to do an "apt-get update" after this change. Regards, Christian
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