Hello guys,

is there any chance of seeing an AMD64 binary for debian etch in the forseeable future?

Thanks,
Marc

Can Debian on AMD64 run 32-bit x86 binaries as well? Or is this inconvenient, eg. requiring the installation of lots of 32-bit libraries in parallel with the 64-bit versions of the same libraries?

well, according to debian AMD64 FAQ it is possible. However, simply installing the necessary libraries via

apt-get install ia32-libs

didn't work out, pkg still exits with the infamous



I'm not really certain about installing a complete IA32 chroot on my machine: https://alioth.debian.org/docman/view.php/30192/21/debian-amd64-howto.html#id292205.

HOWEVER Simply installing the static version:

cd /tmp
wget http://www.princexml.com/download/prince-5.1r15-linux.tar.gz
tar -xzf prince-5.1r15-linux.tar.gz
cd prince-5.1r15-linux/
./install.sh

worked, but strangely only in directory different from the default /usr/local. So either the .deb packages uses dynamically linked libraries or the packahe information ist too strict.

cheers,
marc