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[Bert Freudenberg <bert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 31.03.2010, at 17:25, Amos Blanton wrote:
> Thanks Bert - that's good to know!
> Does the compatibility layer get installed by default? From the forum posts by users who've had good luck forcing installs on 64 bit systems, it seems like it probably is.

Don't know for Ubuntu specifically, and depends on distro anyway.

- Bert -


> On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 10:21 AM, Bert Freudenberg <bert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 31.03.2010, at 16:13, Amos Blanton wrote:
>> Hi David,
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>> Several users have reported success forcing the installation of the 32 bit package on 64 bit systems. There's some information about that here:
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>> http://scratch.mit.edu/forums/viewtopic.php?pid=337826#p337826
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>> Scratch runs on a Squeak virtual machine. It should be possible to install the 64 bit Squeak VM and change the Scratch startup script so as to use it instead of the 32 bit vm we include with the package. That thread has more info about this as well.
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>> Let us know how it goes - we haven't heard of LTSP based configurations with Scratch.
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>> Scratch On!
>> Amos
>> Scratch Team
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> The 64 bit VM is still not complete, many plugins are missing or simply do not work correctly. At this point, using the 32 bit VM is the only real option, and it works fine under 64 bits when you install your distro's 32 bit compatibility layer.
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