install of 32bit libs conflict with 64bit versions

Arjan van de Ven arjanv at redhat.com
Sun Feb 13 13:18:30 UTC 2005


On Sun, 2005-02-13 at 02:12 -0500, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> On RHEL 3, x86_64 I've been trying to install some needed 32bit libs.
> Most have installed without trouble, but a few report conflicts with
> pathnames in the already installed 64bit versions.  As an example,
> the glib-1.2 rpm installs /usr/bin/glib-config and a header file,
> each with the same pathname, but different contents between the
> two packages.
> 
> How should one handle this type of situation?
> 
> I'm not looking for specifics about this particular library,
> though that would be appreciated, but general guidelines.

if you have a recent enough RHEL3 you're supposed to get a whole slew of
32 bit packages that just work... afaik glib is part of that.

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