> >Le Dienstag 14 Februar 2006 17:04, Matthieu Helleboid a écrit : > >> Hello, > >> > >> I've made an update to amd64-archive made by Goswin von Brederlow. > >> > >> It will make a local repository for amd64 without a chroot for : > >> * firefox, mozilla, opera, flash > >> * mplayer, w32codecs > >> * skype > >> * openoffice > >> > >> Have a look at http://mhelleboid.free.fr/ > > > I'm sorry -- I'm a bit confused about what this script does, and > the web page didn't really explain it. Does it remove the need for > a 32-bit chroot to run the above apps on a 64-bit system? If so, > how? By putting the 32-bit libraries in a special location, and > then surrounding all the above apps in a script wrapper that > sets library paths to the new locations? That kind of thing?
Right. It's not clearly explained, but from studying the page it seems that installing amd64-archive creates an archive on your local machine of modified packages that wrap the apps for execution in the 64-bit environment. The archive of modified packages will be built in /var/lib/amd64-archive. It would seem better to create these packages once and for all and offer them in an online archive for everyone, but better this way than nothing. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
