18 Jan
2007
18 Jan
'07
9:34 p.m.
On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 10:38 +0000, cl@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.