From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Oo0Vs-0008AG-TN for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 24 Aug 2010 20:54:33 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 97F84E07C0; Tue, 24 Aug 2010 20:53:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.etherstorm.net (static-71-174-230-35.bstnma.fios.verizon.net [71.174.230.35]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78A37E07C0 for ; Tue, 24 Aug 2010 20:53:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.100.229] (Mouse.etherstorm.net [192.168.100.229]) by mail.etherstorm.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 055E11C5802F for ; Tue, 24 Aug 2010 16:53:58 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4C743164.7040508@etherstorm.net> Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 16:53:56 -0400 From: "tparker@etherstorm.net" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100802 Thunderbird/3.1.2 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] 32/64bit confusion Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: befb0ee0-06a2-4768-98cf-8de8a7fb966b X-Archives-Hash: 72268c8e2e90825eae7b999d8b3ea529 I have a new (first) gentoo amd64 install, multilib, and have been searching the docs, forums and google for information on how to handle emerges for 32bit programs on the 64bit install. I have found some references to using -bin for 32bit programs (example: "emerge wine-bin" to get the 32bit version or "emerge wine" to get the 64 bit version) but I haven't been able to get that to work; emerge wine-bin returns: 'emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "wine-bin".' Searches didn't turn up examples or explanations to help me find what I am doing wrong. I also found references to making a chroot environment to use when running the 32bit programs, but they all made it sound like a short step from a dualboot - that I would not be able to use anything in my 64bit environment while that was running. For example, having a 32bit program running in windowed mode through wine while I have 64 bit work programs running on the same desktop, or 32 bit firefox (for flash) with the rest of the system 64bit. The information must be in the documentation somewhere, but I am failing at finding the correct search terms to get me information newer than 2005-2007. Thanks for any help you can give.