On Sat, Aug 26, 2006 at 08:30:07PM +0200, Alexander Loob wrote: > So but what is the sense of the libc6-amd64 package in the debian i386 > branch? Are these the optimized libraries for processors with the > amd64 instruction set for use in a i386 debian installation? Or what is > the sense of this package?
They are 64-bit libraries, used to run 64-bit programs on 64-bit hardware, when the rest of the system is 32-bit. If you have a 32-bit kernel, you don't need it. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
