On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 11:19:11PM -0700, Rob Healey 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??? Opera has 64 bit versions, and it's usually selected automatically from their download dialog. (Though there may be be some 32 bit dependencies, I don't think so--sometimes, you have to install QT if you don't have it already, and possibly a few other things.) However, yes, it's OK to mix them. On occasion, there will be problems, such as the nss-mdns issue that occurred with chromium browser, wine, and a few other programs that installed a 32 nss-mdns which broke DNS for many people (though it was easily fixed by making sure you had the 64 bit version installed as well.) -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 Buffy: Every time you show up like this, you risk all your parts, you know that? Spike: I wouldn't be here if I didn't have a good reason. As usual, I'm here to help you and I... are you naked under there? Buffy: Get out. Spike: No, I'm serious. I mean, not about the naked part... -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
