I'm considering upgrading my system, which has a socket 754 processor,
to actually use the 64 bits I paid for. I've been looking through the
package lists in Etch and notice that the ones that explicitly list
AMD64 are not pervasive.

OpenOffice.org and wine are two biggies I've noticed seem to be missing.
However, my understanding is that the AMD64 processors will execute i386
programs - the problem is the libraries that they link to have to be
i386 as well - which doesn't work if a library is the 64-bit version
being called from a 32-bit program (e.g. a killer for running
OpenOffice.org or wine is the need for a 32bit libc6).

I'm not using SATA drives or anything which didn't run under Sarge for
that matter, so I'm not expecting any great hardware issues. However, I
am concerned about not being able to run OpenOffice.org and to a lesser
extent wine.

Have I got this right? If I install the AMD64 Etch, do I lose
OpenOffice.org and wine?