Mathieu Baudier wrote: >> The 32-bit packages are installed for backward-compatibility with any >> 32-bit programs you may want to run. > > Regarding security, is it less safe to have these *.i386 packages > installed? (esp. on a server) > (according to the principle that "less is always more secure") Hi I'm not sure if it's that simple. Although this seems to be a good general principle, it will depend how expose it's the system, or if you (or the sysadmin) do the updates, etc. Regards mg.