>>>>> "Brett" == Brett Viren <[log in to unmask]> writes: Brett> csieh <[log in to unmask]> writes: >> I was hoping that you would provide us with the AMD-64 and maybe itanium >> rpms as we are kind of short of development hardware in these >> areas. Brett> Is the CERN AMD64 port a pure 64 bit only system or does it support Brett> both 32 and 64 bit binaries? Both, but ... not all libraires are available in 32-bit mode. For example, most of the GUI libraries (gnome-*, KDE*) are 64bit-only. Since we don't expect to run a lot of Opterons any time soon, this allows us to do comparisons for the code we are interested in, but is probably not a generally-useable desktop distro. Brett> If the latter, can packages from the i386 distribution be Brett> additionally installed? Only as long as all of the 32-bit dependencies are met. Regards jan