Jaime Vives Piqueres wrote:
> 
>   About 2), I don't really know if the official binary is 32 or 64
> bits, as I always compile the sources for my own platform.

The only official binary currently available is a 32bit one.

> The effort is
> so minimal that any advantage is worth. I mean, compiling your own
> version for you specific platform is very easy on Linux, and it should
> take only a few minutes more than installing the official binary (just
> make sure to install the development tools of your Linux distro).

IIRC the only tools required are gcc and make.  Most distributions 
install those by default.  For building with X Window display you need 
the development packages for the X-Libs.

Christoph

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