i386 in Ubuntu won't die
&gt; Plenty of other pieces of software such as WINE only work when 32-bit libraries are installed on a 64-bit system.<p>Funny to mention Wine specifically; they&#x27;re implementing a more sophisticated Wine-on-Wine64 setup that, among other things, will make having 32-bit system libs unnecessary, through the power of Heaven&#x27;s Gate, not unlike how Windows handles syscalls in real WoW64.<p>(As far as I understand it, Linux, having a stable syscall interface, just supports the old software interrupts for 32-bit syscalls, making this unnecessary. In fact, they seem to even work from a 64-bit process to some degree.)