[HLUG] Re: arch & cpu number confusion

[Julian Robbins]

Emon wrote:

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>>I'm not an expert, but arch is the type of architecture that your software 
>>packages are compiled for , cpu probably indicates the ACTUAL type of CPU 
>>you have.
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>I see..... thanks, that was really helpful.
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>So the bottom line (although not technically correct) is some
>thing like this...
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>arch=486, cpu=686 means that you at least have to have a i486
>cpu to run this binary but it will run great if you have a i686
>cpu, right??
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Yepp, thats about it.

>One last thing; so what dose it mean when people tell me that my
>kernel architecture is i386 ??
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That means any Intel 386 or above or similar (ie AMD) can run it.

>and on different note what does "noarch" mean ??
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Means 'no architecture' - didnt need to be compiled for a certain 
processor, ie CPU for that package would be meaningless.

Julian

>Thanks again
>Emon
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