On 28/02/10 04:59 AM, Marko Vojinovic wrote:
On Saturday 27 February 2010 09:21:35 pm Suvayu Ali wrote:
> On 27/02/10 07:05 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote:
>> ...
>> version of it (yet). Later on I tainted it again when installing
>> dependencies for Wolfram Mathematica package I use.
>>
>> If there weren't for closed source software which depends on 32bit
>> libraries, I'd be having a clean 64bit-only system.
>
> I run F11 x86_64 and there are *zero* 32 bit libraries on my machine. I
> recently installed Mathematica from the Wolfram supplied binary for a
> friend. I however did not need to install any 32 bit dependencies. Are
> you sure about their dependence on 32 bit libraries?
Umm, well, yes, I needed this specifically:
compat-libstdc++-33-3.2.3-68.i686
This package provides libstdc++.so.5 which is needed by Mma 6.0.3. Maybe in
...
Maybe this can be avoided somehow, but it wasn't obvious to me. Or maybe Mma
was just looking for the library in /usr/lib instead of /usr/lib64, which
would account as a bug, possibly resolved in version 7? I didn't have enough
Thats it! I installed Mathematica 7. Maybe they fixed the issue. AFAIK
the installer script supposedly supports both architectures.
Best, :-)
Marko
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