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Another delight discovered (Ubuntu)
2008-Dec-12, Friday 07:36 amSo, I posted previously about my frustration with having a lot of code not compatible with the AMD64 architecture, and thus not being able to easily move to a 64-bit platform in Linux/BSD lands. I was trolling around for a completely 'other' reason on some of the Ubuntu install boards, and found this happy little switch:
--force-architecture
Seems that little add-on to either apt-get or dpkg disables the architecture check, and will happily install a 32-bit program set into a 64-bit architecture. No need to build a virtual machine solely to run some of the programs any longer. Seems that Ubuntu, like Vista and XP, manages 32-bit code right alongside the 64-bit internally, and sets up separate install bases for them. Handy, but frustrating that it's only now that I found it.
--force-architecture
Seems that little add-on to either apt-get or dpkg disables the architecture check, and will happily install a 32-bit program set into a 64-bit architecture. No need to build a virtual machine solely to run some of the programs any longer. Seems that Ubuntu, like Vista and XP, manages 32-bit code right alongside the 64-bit internally, and sets up separate install bases for them. Handy, but frustrating that it's only now that I found it.
