Are there any 64 bit apps repositories?

[Adam Membrey]

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Colin Watson wrote:
| On Sat, Mar 26, 2005 at 07:34:29AM +1100, Ken Caldwell wrote:
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|>I have just completed a new installation using the
|>hoary-preview-install-amd64.iso on a box with an AMD Athlon 64 3000+
|>uname -r shows 2.6.10-4-amd64-generic but the lines in
|>/etc/apt/sources.list do not appear to have any mention of something
|>like amd64 in them nor do the package names (except the kernel)
|
|
| sources.list assumes the architecture you're running, and package names
| do not in general need to change depending on the architecture.
|
|
|>Am I correct in assuming that the installation uses the standard 32bit
|>apps rather than any specially compiled 64bit ones?
|
|
| No; you're running a pure 64-bit distribution (with a very few
| exceptions where the 64-bit versions couldn't be made to work).
|
| Cheers,
|

If you want an extra repository for some of the harder packages to find,
use this one.
http://cyberspace.ucla.edu/marillat/dists/unstable/main/binary-amd64/

add it to your sources.list with the following

deb http://cyberspace.ucla.edu/marillat/ unstable main
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