'Upgrade' from FC2 x86_64 to FC3 x86?

[Tolan Blundell]

Alan Cox wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 04:28:07PM +0000, Tolan Blundell wrote:
>>I'd double check, before scrubbing my system, whether it might be 
>>possible to move from x86_64 FC2 to plain old x86 FC3?
 >
> Not easily

Figured. Thanks.

>>I want to go back to x86 because compiling some stuff for x86_64 is a 
>>pain, apparently impossible in some situations, and all the proprietary 
>>stuff like the Flash plugin, and windows codecs for mplayer mean I spend 
>>much more time than I can afford m aintaining my system..
> 
> So compile them 32bit or use the 32bit packages for those programs.
> 

I've had quite a lot of problems getting 32-bit packages to work to be 
honest, particularly ones that depend on GTK2, I get missing pixmaps, 
and lots of errors about loaders, amongst other things. The packages 
install happily enough but then don't actually work.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying there's anything wrong with x86_64 
Fedora, just that the extra work of thinking about two architectures 
isn't worth the performance gain for me at the moment.

Tolan.
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