A pure 64-bit environment is extremely rare. There are only a few distros in which one actually could do it -- VidaLinux/Gentoo 2005.0 without multilib, *maybe* Debian, and Slackware, if Slack ever creates a 64-bit environment.
All the rest are still somewhat 32-bit reliant, as E@zyVG found out.
~~ Andrew D.
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