Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 32/64bit confusion

2010-08-25 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 8/24/2010 5:46 PM, tpar...@etherstorm.net wrote: On 8/24/2010 5:15 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: There is no such package. There are only very few -bin packages. In other words, -bin is not a magic string you append to package names. As for Wine, the ebuild changed recently to offer both

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 32/64bit confusion

2010-08-25 Thread Bill Longman
On 08/24/2010 03:17 PM, tpar...@etherstorm.net wrote: On 8/24/2010 5:45 PM, Zeerak Mustafa Waseem wrote: A good idea might be to install the package app-portage/eix. It allows you to, amongst other things, to search for packages in case you're uncertain about a package name. The search will

[gentoo-user] Re: 32/64bit confusion

2010-08-24 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 08/24/2010 11:53 PM, tpar...@etherstorm.net wrote: I have a new (first) gentoo amd64 install, multilib, and have been searching the docs, forums and google for information on how to handle emerges for 32bit programs on the 64bit install. I have found some references to using -bin for 32bit

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 32/64bit confusion

2010-08-24 Thread tpar...@etherstorm.net
On 8/24/2010 5:15 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: There is no such package. There are only very few -bin packages. In other words, -bin is not a magic string you append to package names. As for Wine, the ebuild changed recently to offer both 64bit as well as 32bit Wine. I think the binaries are

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 32/64bit confusion

2010-08-24 Thread Zeerak Mustafa Waseem
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 12:15:41AM +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 08/24/2010 11:53 PM, tpar...@etherstorm.net wrote: I have a new (first) gentoo amd64 install, multilib, and have been searching the docs, forums and google for information on how to handle emerges for 32bit programs on

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 32/64bit confusion

2010-08-24 Thread tpar...@etherstorm.net
On 8/24/2010 5:45 PM, Zeerak Mustafa Waseem wrote: A good idea might be to install the package app-portage/eix. It allows you to, amongst other things, to search for packages in case you're uncertain about a package name. The search will also tell you whether the package is installed, what