At one time there were comments that not all packages were available on amd64. Even today that can be true, especially for some third party stuff. To wit, a prominent manufacturer of amateur radio equipment offers utilities for its hardware for Linux in addition to the other two, but the Linux version is 32 bit only and is dynamically linked to 32 bit libraries. Requests for amd64/x86_64 versions have been ignored as have requests for armhf.
A recent email thread blamed "Linux" for making this so hard because multi-arch must be enabled. I noted that if the manufacturer would also provide 64 bit versions of their utilities that this pain would be avoided. Curiously, there was no reply to that fact. It should have been noted that choosing a distribution with multi-arch enabled out of the box, such as Ubuntu, would make installation no more painful than on Windows 64. To date the manufacturer's Web site states that 32 bit compatibility libraries are required. Some users may make the choice to simply install a 32 bit distribution as a result. My suggestion, and solution, is to spin up a 32 bit VM to run the utilities for the odd time that I need them. - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Web: http://www.n0nb.us GPG key: D55A8819 GitHub: N0NB
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