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Old 04-11-2008
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Probably try lib first. On my 64-bit system, lib is a symlink to lib64 (or was it the other way around) and lib32 is for non-native 32-bit stuff (like proprietary drivers and codecs which only exist in i386 binary form and can't be recompiled for 64-bit).
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