x86_64/i386

[Frank Cox]

On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 22:39:28 +0100
François Patte <francois.patte at math-info.univ-paris5.fr> wrote:

> Is it possible to prevent yum to install double version of a package: to
> night, I wanted to install digikam and yum offered to install both
> version (x86_64 and i386) and all missing dependencies (x86_64 and i386).
> 
> I need only one version!
> 
> Is there some possibility: --exclude=i386

If you want to remove all i386 packages from your computer you can use this
command:

yum remove \*.i?86

If you want to exclude all i386 packages from your yum commands, you can add
this to /etc/yum.conf:

exclude=*.i386 *.i586 *.i686




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