Fedora 7: lib64 directories

[Toshio Kuratomi]

On Fri, 2007-06-08 at 13:52 +1200, Shams wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have installed Fedora 7 on a 64-bit cpu.
> I noticed that Fedora has both /usr/lib and /usr/lib64.
> 
> 1. Is this only on Fedora or standard across many Linux distros?
> 
> 2. Technically why is this needed, can it be just  solved with having all 
> the 64-bit libs in /usr/lib?
> 
> 3. Also if I have a 64-bit cpu that is not capable of supporting IA32 will 
> then only /usr/lib exist?
> 
> 4. Also does this mean that a lot of installed packages are still 32-bit?
> 
This is an end user question and should be directed to fedora-list
instead of fedora-devel-list.  fedora-devel-list is for discussions
about creating and directing the next version of Fedora.

Thanks,
Toshio
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