bug? 'yum provides' shows only 32 bit options

Jeff Spaleta jspaleta at gmail.com
Fri Jan 9 23:03:15 UTC 2009


On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 1:52 PM, Dave Burns <tburns at hawaii.edu> wrote:
> Is this a bug or what? I wanted to find the 64 bit version of libstdc++.so.5:
>
> $ yum provides libstdc++.so.5
No not a bug. The 64bit package doesn't actually technically provide that.
It provides libstdc++.so.5()(64bit)

64bit libraries are listed in the rpm header "colored" with (64bit)
indicator.

try doing that again with a wildcard   yum provides
'libstdc++.so.5*(64bit)'  or something close to that.

-jef
-jef




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