[CentOS] Re: Re: 32-bit vs 64-bit CentOS on 64-bit hardware

Kenneth Porter wrote:

What kinds of issues do you run into, if any, getting 32 bit apps running on a 64 bit system?

You may need to install a missing i386 library from the i386 distribution, which isn't supplied in the 64 bit dist. I have 32 and 64 bit distributions in the yum search path, which mostly works.

There are also a few scripts which assume things about where libraries are installed on the system.

Another issue are LD_PRELOAD and LD_LIBRARY_PATH tricks some programs or wrappers play.

For example, if I run 64 bit on my Venice-based game box, has anyone experience getting WoW to run in Cedega on that?

Not me. You can always install in a chroot environment if all else fails, but that's not much fun.

Jeremy