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Re: Athlon 64 and 32 bit code [reply]
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Jan Iven <[log in to unmask]>
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Jan Iven <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 1 Nov 2005 12:01:50 +0100
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On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 23:37 +0100, Fabien Wernli wrote:
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> I have problems with apt.
> I even tried to force the Architecture to x86_64 in apt.conf.
> However apt seems to prefer i386 packages. As these are in the x86_64
> repository, using apt is impossible.
> 
> Any ideas? (apart from using yum)

Sorry, no. "apt" doesn't have the required multi-arch features, and
development on this seems to be stuck. It *might* work if you run a
64bit-only machine (this is what Debian does by default).

Other than, that "yum" is certainly the easiest solution for now.
Regards
jan

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