x86_64/i386

Sieranski, Greg greg.sieranski at quoininc.com
Wed Feb 13 17:33:07 UTC 2008


Michael A. Peters wrote:
> 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.
>
but since i dont have flash or acrobat reader running on my x86_64 
system it would otherwise be ok to do?

thanks,
Greg Sieranski




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