ia32-libs

Kjeldgaard Morten mortenkjeldgaard at gmail.com
Mon Dec 22 08:32:21 GMT 2008


On 22/12/2008, at 04.44, Jerone Young wrote:

> You can easily run & install 32bit apps on these distros because the
> 32-bit libs are placed in /lib & /usr/lib .. while the 64bit libs are
> placed in /lib64 & /usr/lib64. This allows their 64bit distros to have
> easy 32bit comparability and easily install 32bit packages on top of  
> the
> 64bit distro.

... and is the cause of the horrible, horrible breakages. One of the  
reasons we left the RHEL distro.

-- Morten



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