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upgrade:
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Qiskit no longer supports Linux i686 and 32 bit Windows. Starting in Qiskit
2.0 a 64 bit platform is needed to run Qiskit. The user base for 32bit
architectures is relatively small and as Qiskit continues to focus on
improving performance to handle the increased scale in the complexity
of quantum computing hardware maintaining support for 32 bit platforms
is proving increasingly difficult. This coupled with the larger
scientific/numeric Python community's trend away from 32 bit platform
support maintaining support for 32bit platforms is no longer viable.
Qiskit 1.x will still continue to support 32 bit platforms, but starting
in this 2.0.0 release Qiskit no longer supports these platforms, will
not publish pre-compiled binaries for these platforms any longer, and
there is no longer any guarantee of being able to build from source on
32 bit platforms.