Arch Linux

smitty

Member

Registered: 2008-01-17

Posts: 73

Is there anything not included in Arch64 vs 32 bit?

I was just wondering if they haven't included anything in the 64-bit version vs the 32-bit version. I heard from other Linux forums, for example, that there wasn't any 64-bit version for Flash player made by Adobe. Also, they said Adobe doesn't have a 64-bit version for their Adobe Reader. Is any of this presently true? Thanks in advance.

Last edited by smitty (2008-02-04 23:27:31)

dyscoria

Member

Registered: 2008-01-10

Posts: 1,007

Re: Is there anything not included in Arch64 vs 32 bit?

There isn't a 64-bit version yet, but there are solutions such as this one. You can use Evince, Epdfview, or a variety of other PDF viewers instead as nice (opensource) solutions. If you really want to use Adobe Reader, i'm sure you can just install the 32bit version, although plenty og 32bit libraries will have to be installed with it.

"What will I miss in Arch64?"

Last edited by Jamie (2008-02-05 00:20:07)

---

flack 2.0.6: menu-driven BASH script to easily tag FLAC files (AUR)
knock-once 1.2: BASH script to easily create/send one-time sequences for knockd (forum/AUR)

colnago

Member

From: Victoria, BC

Registered: 2004-03-25

Posts: 438

Re: Is there anything not included in Arch64 vs 32 bit?

There are work-arounds for those.  The JRE plugin is another one.  The wiki has a list and also the version differences:

http://dev.archlinux.org/~andyrtr/pkg_diff.html

Sometimes the time an updated package is available differs between the two versions.  Here is the  page for the specific apps in progress:

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch64_ToDoS