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Re: Going back to 32 bit from 64 bit



 On Tue, 16 Oct 2007 08:34:29 -0400 (EDT) 
[hidden email] wrote: 

> Sadly, I moved back to 32 bit kubuntu. 
> 
> On 64 bit systems everything works fine as long as it is 64 bit or 
> self-contained 32 bit, but not all firefox plugins are 64 bit as of yet, 
> so you have to run the 32 bit version, but that doesn't work because 
> things like sound are implemented at the 64 bit level and the shared 
> libraries don't load. 
> 
> PostgreSQL compiled on a 64 bit machine will not read a database built 
> using a 32 bit build. 
> 
> Wine does not seem to work at all. 


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