On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 2:19 AM, Rob Healey <robhealey1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Greetings: > This my first time having a 64bit system, so I am a newbie here as far as > x86_64 goes, but not with Linux. Fedora/ Redhat in particular!!! > I have noticed that there are a lot of software out there for Fedora, but > some of it is only i686! Like Opera and Adobe Reader in particular... They > list a ton of i686 dependencies when trying to install them. Is it ok to > mix x86_64 and i686 on the same system??? Hi Rob. The 32bit library packages are designed to be comfortably installed side by side with their 64bit versions. You can just install them. ...Although, you'll waste disk space and memory keeping separate 32bit copies around; everything in 64bit fedora is 64bit it's only when you run third party binary-only applications that this issues usually arises anymore. Perhaps it's another reason why you should think twice about needing those applications? There is free software more most purposes, such as web browsing and PDF reading, and much of it comes pre-packaged and well integrated with Fedora. In any case— if you need them, they'll work. Just install the required libraries. Cheers. -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
