[ALUG] peculiarities with debian apt and amd64

[Paul]

Hi Jenny

On Tuesday 21 November 2006 14:05, Jenny Hopkins wrote:
> I've been trying to set up a debian box with an amd64 processor.  Just
> a standard install:  stable is fine.

> I've been round the install twice now and each time the same thing happens.

I myself went through the same fun'n'games a couple of weeks ago - From what I 
could gather from Debian's docs, there are no "official" amd64 packages in 
Sarge, so I jumped in with Etch. Aside from a couple of hicups, everything 
appears to be running fine.

Zathras is mirroring both i386 and amd64 architectures, but I had to hack 
deb-mirror around a bit so that it didn't barf over the missing amd64 in 
Sarge.

(ot that this really helps to solve your problem).

Regards, Paul.