Re: Pre-built binary package

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Thu, 20 Sep 2012, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> Linux is not a platform that easily accomodates installable binary blobs.

While you provided lots of good advice, in my experience it is 
possible to provide binaries which do run on most x86 GNU/Linux 
systems.  Typically such binaries are built on a somewhat older 
("stable") systems and don't depend on many OS-provided shared 
libraries.

It is of course necessary to test on common systems to make sure that 
the binaries do indeed work.

If an AMD64 Linux distribution does not provide 32-bit libraries by 
default, they can still usually be installed by the user using the 
normal package manager.

My experience is primarily as a user of such binaries.

Bob
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