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11-09-2004, 03:44 PM
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Registered: Jul 2004
Location: Smiths Falls Ontario (near ottawa [our capital])
Distribution: slackware 9.1, redhat 9.0, PHLAK, SuSE 9.0Pro windows XP (HEAVILY MODIFIED)
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Architectures for rpm DLs, do they matter?
ive been downlaoding rpm files and wine.rpms etc and i was wondering if it mattered what kind of file it was that im download?
when it sais i386 or i686 what does that mean?
my distro is for i386 but i have a i686
does it matter which kind of file i downlaod?
I have an amd2100+ what is that, 686?
if so then should i install only rpms for i686?
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11-09-2004, 04:12 PM
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Registered: May 2003
Location: INDIA
Distribution: Ubuntu, Solaris,CentOS
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hi
386 is ur processor archit
max machines now are of 686 archit but the packages are released asof to support max. types of architec
so a i386 package will work on 386 and 686
while 686 package weill work on 686 only
regards
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11-09-2004, 04:33 PM
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Registered: Aug 2004
Location: New York
Distribution: --------- Gentoo-2004.2 [2.6.8] Redhat-9 [2.6.6]
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Files in RPM are compiled [with Optimization flags] for a given architecture.
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11-09-2004, 11:45 PM
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Registered: May 2003
Location: INDIA
Distribution: Ubuntu, Solaris,CentOS
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to ad on to that
for a given architecture and for a given environment compirsing of the kernel .OS ,compiler etc etc
regards
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