x86_64/i386

[Michael A. Peters]

Sieranski, Greg wrote:
> Frank Cox wrote:
>> 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
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>   
> can you just put exclude=*.i?86 instead of listing out all three?
> 
> thanks,
> Greg Sieranski
> 

You might not want to do that.
nspluginwrapper works well with i386 adobe flash - but if you exclude 
all i386 packages you will not meat the dependencies for the adobe flash 
plugin. Same for Acrobat reader.