Carl Reynolds wrote (about apt on x86-64):
Since it has x86_64 I guess I assumed it is for the 64 bit Fedora Core 3 distribution.
Axel Thimm wrote:
It is and it works like a charm iff you avoid multilib, e.g. remove all overlapping i386 packages. For servers that don't need openoffice or HelixPlayer that's not a major loss.
For non-maths speakers, "iff" isn't a misprint, it means "if and only if".
In other words, you can use apt on x86-64 if and ONLY if you're not going to have any (overlapping) i386 packages.
In practice, practically everything binary links against glibc. So unless you've got a specially-compiled "statically-linked" binary, that means no i386 packages.
Having written that, some Debian folks seem to get on well with a chrooted installation of i386 binaries. One day, I might try that.
James (on x86-64).