Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.albasani.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!news.dfncis.de!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Sven_K=F6hler?= Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: why 32 bit ubuntu can install 64 bit openjdk? Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2013 22:30:46 +0300 Lines: 23 Message-ID: References: <79f46583-8c65-45ea-844f-d0c5194793e0@googlegroups.com> <51d2cd95$0$15893$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl> <51d2e049$0$15968$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.dfncis.de agAmEI9ypGqAV+FPvqpgfAncjG63RdgN56WpewbOpIiPXGiGeeObx2c2sk Cancel-Lock: sha1:OmjfUGPk9EtGl2OPBdtTsg2JSpU= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130623 Thunderbird/17.0.7 In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:24597 On 02/07/13 22:25, Roedy Green wrote: > On Tue, 02 Jul 2013 16:14:33 +0200, Silvio > wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said : > >> Of course I am. The OPs system information states its 64-bitness three >> times so I was just indirectly telling him to look a bit harder. > > I would think it plausible an OS installer would automatically choose > 64 bit if there is 4+ MB of RAM. What should he type to find out what > he has? He already typed "uname -a" which gave him all the information he could wish for in this case. In particular, the output told him that his kernel was a 64bit kernel. It is possible to run odd combinations of a 64Bit kernel and a 32 Bit userland. However, to the best of my knowledge Ubuntu doesn't support that. Hence, we should assume that he runs 64Bit userland. Hence, apt-get installed the 64bit openjdk. Regards, Sven