[ALUG] Re: Re: nspluginwrapper

[Wayne Stallwood]

On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 10:38 +0000, cl at isbd.net wrote:
> It's more that most 'ready made' packages (for example Slackware
> packages, I don't know about rpm files or Debian stuff) will be 32-bit
> so, if you run 64-bit, you need to compile a lot yourself.  Or you
> need
> to run the 32-bit package in some sort of wrapper. 

Both Ubuntu and Debian maintain 64 bit repositories that are for the
most part complete. There is naturally some non free stuff missing
because 64bit versions simply do not exist.

Normally you only have to revert to source when you start wanting stuff
from a third party as many of those don't have 64bit packages available.