[R-sig-Debian] Doubled packages in Debian testing amd64

[Petar Milin]

Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> On 27 February 2010 at 21:36, Petar Milin wrote:
> | Hello!
> | I just installed Debian testing amd64, and the fresh R (r-base and 
> | r-base-dev). However, when I installed packages that I use, I realized 
> | that some of them are settled in two palaces: lib and lib64. Why is 
> | that? Is it fine? I hesitate to run my old line for getting rid of 
> | duplicates:
> | remove.packages(installed.packages()[duplicated(rownames(installed.packages())),1],lib=.libPaths()[.libPaths() 
> | != .Library])
> | I sense that this duplicates might be for some reason (64-bits and 32-bits).
>
> edd at max:/usr$ ls -l
> total 216
> [...]
> drwxr-xr-x 224 root root 69632 2010-02-25 06:40 lib
> drwxr-xr-x   5 root root  4096 2009-10-31 16:13 lib32
> lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root     3 2009-10-07 22:04 lib64 -> lib
> [...]
> edd at max:/usr$
>
> Dirk
>
>   
Sorry for my ignorance, but could you elaborate on that, briefly. lib64 
links to lib?

Thanks,
PM