X86_64 Yum Question

[Nils Philippsen]

On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 10:10 -0500, seth vidal wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 10:07 -0500, Janina Sajka wrote:
> > Is there a way to tell yum to install a i386 version of some package if
> > the x86_64 version isn't available? Is there some documentation that I
> > should be reading on this? Or more generally on the do's and don'ts of
> > mixing 32 bit apps onto an 64 system?
> > 
> > Thanks for any guidance.
> 
> yum install file.i386

Just for the sake of completeness and google: up2date takes the --arch
option which works on RHN -- I haven't tried it against yum or apt
repositories yet.

Nils
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