newbie - Ubuntu mint 32 or 64 ? libraries ?

Asked by freeblue

Dear FEniCS team,

I am newbie on this, so my question is about what system to choose for the installation; Ubuntu Mint 32 or 64 ? has to do with the python/c++ version? I'll really appreciate it if someone could me explain or have a link to understand ...

thank you in advance,
Konstantinos

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Best Johan Hake (johan-hake) said :
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If you are on a 64 bit machine choose the latter. If you have a quite
new computer (think last 4 years) this is most probably the case.

Johan

On 08/16/2012 09:05 AM, Konstantinos Petrakopoulos wrote:
> New question #205965 on FEniCS Project:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/fenics/+question/205965
>
> Dear FEniCS team,
>
> I am newbie on this, so my question is about what system to choose for the installation; Ubuntu Mint 32 or 64 ? has to do with the python/c++ version? I'll really appreciate it if someone could me explain or have a link to understand ...
>
> thank you in advance,
> Konstantinos
>

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freeblue (k542p971) said :
#2

Johan,
Thank you for your quick reply. I will use 64 ...
Konstantinos

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freeblue (k542p971) said :
#3

Thanks Johan Hake, that solved my question.