On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 10:04 AM, Per Jessen <per@computer.org> wrote:
Most (all?) of my 64 bit installs seem to have an almost 1:1 duplication of 64 bit libs in 32 bit just to be able to run those apps that are only 32 bit (apps like Skype, Acroread, Steam, etc.). It
I guess I haven't had reason to play much with running 32bit apps on 64bit openSUSE. Actually, no reason at all until now, because all desktops are running 32bit anyway. This one is an exception, not sure why.
Once you get that core of 32 bit libs installed on the 64 bit system, things hum along fine. For the most part - especially when pulling 32 bit apps (the rare few these days) from the standard repos, the 32 bit libs come along with. Zypper in takes care of "most" of the 3rd party requirements... I say most because Skype has always managed to miss one 32 bit pulse library. I haven't tried Acroread direct from Adobe - I use Okular for 99% of the PDFs I work with. An side on the PDF thing... I was at a conference in November, and one of the presenters kind of nailed it, describing PDFs as the fax machine of the Internet, and just as doomed to eventual obscurity as... fa machines. I thought it was a pretty interesting analogy. C. -- openSUSE 12.3 x86_64, KDE 4.11 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org