yum, x86_64 and i386: the never ending story

Warren Togami wtogami at redhat.com
Wed Dec 12 19:37:07 UTC 2007


Christoph Wickert wrote:
> sorry that I bring up this topic once again: why does yum install i386
> packages on a x86_64 system during groupinstall?

You can avoid nearly all multilib install problems with 
yum-basearchonly.  The only drawback is if you really do need something 
.i386 you need to name it manually to install it.

Warren




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