[ale] oh....help

[James Taylor]

The original openSUSE install, assuming it was 64-bit, would have included the 32-bit libraries and Opera, or any other 32-bit app, would have installed without a problem.
-jt


James Taylor
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>>> On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 11:43 AM, in message <46E8092D.5070207 at polibyte.com>,
Brian Pitts <brian at polibyte.com> wrote: 
> Paul Cartwright wrote:
>> ouch. my openSUSE 10.2 install got...hosed a bit, so I tried installing
>> again. mt openSUSE 10.2 disk freezes when it boots, it doesn't allow me
>> to do anything with the keyboard. my new Linuz magazine copy of SLED 10
>> does the same thing. the Debian 4.0 Etch CD DID work however, so I
>> installed Debian. My Dell desktop is an Intel Duo Core processor, yet it
>> installed the AMD processor:
>> # dpkg --list|grep kernel
>> ii  libdrm2                           2.0.2-0.1
>> Userspace interface to kernel DRM services -
>> ii  linux-image-2.6-amd64             2.6.18+6etch2
>> Linux kernel 2.6 image on AMD64
>> 
>> 
>> this makes life for me misreable.. now it won't let me install Opera for
>> one, and I get Iceweasel for a browser...
>> Is there anything I can do about the AMD kernel?? not sure what to do at
>> this point...
>> 
> 
> AMD created the 64-bit technology used in desktop processors, then Intel 
> copied it. Debian, like many linux distributions, uses the term AMD64 to 
> refer to the architecture regardless of the manufacturer.
> 
> I think you have a larger problem than whether or not your kernel is 
> tweaked for your exact processor. Did you intentionally install the 
> 64-bit version of Debian instead of the 32-bit version? AFAIK there is 
> no 64-bit version of Opera for Linux. Getting it and other proprietary 
> software to work (flash comes to mind) will be a pain.
> 
> http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/534
> 
> What's wrong with Iceweasel, anyway? The icon is cute. ;-)
> 
> -Brian
> 
> 
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