2006/2/23, daniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thursday 23 February 2006 07:54, Boris Fersing wrote: > > 2006/2/23, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I'm going to install Gentoo on Athlon64-based workstation, > > > but I'm a little confused about hardware profiles and their > > > compatibility: > > > > > > If I select now amd64, will I be able later to install and > > > use x86 software, if there is no amd64 release (for example > > > precompiled game-binaries, or even some sources which are > > > only for x86, not amd64)? > > > > > > Or do I have to use x86 installation profile? > > > > Hi, > > > > just use the amd64 default profile (the mutilib one), then you'll be > > able to run 32bits softwares too ! > > Not entirely true. When I first got my amd64 box, I did just that and was > horribly disappointed. While most things worked, there were a number of > "show stoppers" so to speak: Konqueror couldn't play flash movies because > while Konqueror compiled just fine as 64-bit, flash is only available in > 32bit. If I wanted to see Flash, I had to use a binary version of Firefox. > Worse though was the fact that none of the win32codecs were available so I > couldn't watch any wmv, wma or other binary-only formats. > > Sadly, if you want to be able to use stuff typically used for the Windows > world, you have to conform to that world's handicapps, which means making do > with 32bits for now.
What jarry wants is to run precompiled 32bits applications, which should work with the multilib profile. But I agree iwth some points, you can't use a 32bits plugin with a 64bits application, that's why I've installed mozilla-firefox-bin, mplayer-bin ... regards, Boris. > > -- > It is sort of puzzling I think that you can have 100 percent certainty about > the weapons of mass destruction's existence, and zero certainty about where > they are. > - Hans Blix, Chief UN weapons inspector in Iraq > before the American occupation > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > > -- Quiconque me parle de Dieu en veut à ma bourse ou à ma liberté. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
