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On Mon, 2006-04-17 at 15:40 +0100, Adrian Midgley wrote:
> Neil Williams wrote:
>
> >If a package doesn't start on 64bit, it should simply be removed from the
> >64bit archives until it's fixed, especially with a distro like Mandriva that,
> >as Mandrake, built up a good reputation for being friendly to new users.
> >
> >
>
> I suppose one available approach is to run those 32 bit packages in a
> virtual machine under vmware (or a libre alternative) running on the 64
> bit base distribution.
It's probably not even necessary to do that; Debian AMD64 has 32-bit
versions of various libraries (libc etc), and they'll run happily
alongside the 64-bit versions. Failing that, you can set up a chroot
with only 32-bit packages, and run things in that if necessary.
Ben
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