Trouble Removing RPM's
Frank Cox
theatre at sasktel.net
Mon Mar 3 17:47:52 UTC 2008
On Mon, 03 Mar 2008 09:43:15 -0800 (PST)
Alan <alan at clueserver.org> wrote:
> Don't try ripping out all the 32 bit versions. Your system will stop
> working.
Actually, that's not correct. I ran a 64-bit only system here for a while as a
sort of an experiment and it worked fine; everything worked great. The only
downside was that I didn't have flash or Acrobat Reader available.
You can remove all i386 packages with this command:
yum remove \*.i?86
> You may not have 32 bit gtk apps installed now, but you might later.
> There are a number of packages that are only available as 32bit. (Acrobat
> Reader comes to mind.) If you remeove the 32bit versions of the
> libraries, these other apps will not work.
That's the downside.
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