Trouble with 32 bit Gtk app on 64 bit system - no or misleading error msgs

[Scott Beamer]

Flávio Etrusco spake thusly:


>>> Exacty. That's precicely my point.  Fedora, Mandriva and openSUSE have
>>> thsi down.
>>
>> Which has nothing to do with rpm versus deb. It just happens that their
>> repo layout/structure was much more conducive to packaging properly for
>> 64-bit.
>>
>>
> IIRC rpm allows installing multiple versions of one given package while
> dpkg prohibits it, is this correct?
> 

Correct.

You can have both the 64 and 32 bit versions of a package installed (e.g. 
gnome-themes-extras).