[Mageia-dev] 32bits i586 still useful in x86_64 ?
Maarten Vanraes
alien at rmail.be
Sun Jan 15 20:50:59 CET 2012
Op zondag 15 januari 2012 17:38:08 schreef Pierre Jarillon:
> After an install of a x86_64 Mageia, open harddrake2 (in MCC).
> Then a pop-up asks.
>
> The following packages need to be installed:
> nspluginwrapper, libalsa-plugins-pulseaudio
>
> I the anwer is Yes, a great bunch of i586 rpm's are installed.
>
> Either, they are needed (work well without) and the question is no more
> necessary, either these packages must be installed during the original
> installation.
yes, noarch packages are in i586 and some programs still use 32bit stuff
like: wine
it's designed to use 32bit windows apps, thus needing 32bit libraries and stuff
and nspluginwrapper (but that may become unnecessary next release)
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