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Ass far as I know, there's no difference between that. There's the i(3|4|6)86
architecture, and AMD64.
I'd simply suggest to install Sawfish from source. It's actually pretty easy.
Get the source packages from librep, rep-gtk and Sawfish and simply follow the
instructions inside.
On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 08:14:04AM -0700, greg heil wrote:
> Robert
>
> Hmm well that said it was a "x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux" system! It IS
> important for several softwares (such as gimp) to take advantage of
> the 8G the sys has though. Perhaps The difference between AMD64and
> x86_64 is big enough though to require recompiling. Are there any good
> instructions on how to do this?
>
> greg
> ~krsnadas.org
>
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> from: Robert 'Bobby' Zenz Robert.Zenz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> to: sawfish@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> date: 24 August 2012 07:52
> subject: Re: [Sawfish] installing sawfish in xubuntu
>
> Run "uname -a" once to check your installed version.
>
> I'm not sure if you can install 64bit software on a 32bit system.
>
> --
>
> from: greg heil emanuensis@xxxxxxxxx
> to: sawfish@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> date: 24 August 2012 07:25
> subject: Re: [Sawfish] installing sawfish in xubuntu
>
> Chris
>
> Well that could be good for me ... the machine IS a (duo) 64b! How do
> i convince Synaptic of that though? i believe at install i used the
> 32b option instead.It would be rather misteak prone to do a direct
> install, especially as i do not know, yet, how to do that properly.
>
> greg
> ~krsnadas.org
>
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> from: Christopher Roy Bratusek nano@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> to: sawfish@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> date: 24 August 2012 01:33
> subject: Re: [Sawfish] installing sawfish in xubuntu
>
> Ahh... my repo only has AMD64, no i386. But you could download the
> sources and compile from those (since it's deb-src it will tell you
> about missing deps)
>
> Regards
>
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>
> from: greg heil emanuensis@xxxxxxxxx
> to: sawfish@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> date: 23 August 2012 17:39
> subject: Re: [Sawfish] installing sawfish in xubuntu
>
> Chris
>
> Synaptic failed to install Sawfish saying:
>
> "Could not apply changes! Fix broken packages firs."
>
> Perhaps it is because when i updated the package list a dialog said:
>
> GPG error: http://apt.nanolx.org photonic InRelease: The following
> signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not
> available: NO_PUBKEY 4B9D3375057549E2Failed to fetch
> http://apt.nanolx.org/dists/photonic/main/binary-i386/Packages 500
> Internal Server Error Some index files failed to download. They have
> been ignored, or old ones used instead.
>
> BTW the Starfish-pager is not marked as coming from nano...
>
> greg
> ~krsnadas.org
>
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