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My Debian kernel is linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64, and the command uname -m returns x86_64. However, apt-get does get i386 packages (those /var/cache/apt/archives/*_i386.deb), and never gets amd64 ...

First I'm gonna confess that I'm quite new to the world of Linux and only used Ubuntu/LinuxMint/Debian. I just came across a Linux distro called "Core Linux", which is only 11mb in size. Naturally, ...

I was wondering, since recently I've decided I want to move from Ubuntu 14.04 to XFCE mint linux, if games installed in Ubuntu will run in Mint? I've copied my home folder onto an external hard drive, ...

I basically have two questions: How do you install 32-bit Python alongside 64-bit Python on linux? How do I fix my broken system from the failed attempt below? I just tried to install a 32-bit python ...

I recently ran into trouble when installing Debian on a netbook. There were three major hardware/kernel issues that I didn't feel like fixing, and since every single forum/wiki writeup reported the ...

I need an old version of qt5 for anki. (qt5-5.7) Therefore I would like to downgrade all qt5-packages (the whole group). Is there a way to do this with pacman?

Note: This question has been previously asked on askubuntu.com but was rejected as off-topic, and instead, I was redirected to this site. Therefore I'm reposting it here. I'm trying to compile a ...

I am interested in setting up my machine so that I can try different distributions of Linux. I want to always be running Ubuntu (10.04.3), but would then try other distros in a dual-boot setting. ...

Let's say for example the host system is running Debian amd64. And on that system, another Debian i386 has been installed inside a folder using debootstrap. Then assume a shell script is running ...

I have been searching for a simple way to run x86_64 binaries on arm64 GNU/Linux. I've tried qemu-user: qemu-x86-64 -L /usr/x86-64-linux-gnu /opt/x86_64program, but I'm getting /lib/libc.so.6: version ...

After lot of googling and posting and crying over obscure GCC linker error messages I concluded that the only way to reliably build something in foreign CPU architecture is to set up a chroot ...

I have Fedora and Ubuntu installed on different partitions on my system. Now i want to make programs such as "adobe reader" or "kerio-control-vpnclient-8.4.2-2869-linux" available to fedora. those ...

Typically even old programs (copied from systems with Linux kernel version 2.4) just run file on modern Linux systems, unless they depend on a lot of libraries or use frameworks. New programs, (often ...

I'm continually getting this error: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.14' not found What I did before was add the Debian experimental repo and update to 2.17. But through a long chain ...

I have a project that is supposed to run on all following platforms: Win x86 Win x64 Linux (Debian) x86 Linux (Debian) x64 I'm finish with windows and Linux x64 compiled although I'm not sure it works....