multilib and i386 rpms on x86_64

[Justin Conover]

On 7/1/05, Nathan Grennan <fedora-test-list at cygnusx-1.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-06-30 at 23:50 -0500, Justin Conover wrote:
> > Did I miss something along the way of running rawhide that it seems
> > that for example firefox.i386 and helixplayer aren't able to install?
> >
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=155790
> >
> > That was closed, but I don't seem to be able to  yum install firefox.i386
> 
>   I do remember being able to installed i386 packages while using FC4
> Test releases. I noticed it wasn't the same in FC4. I ended up doing the
> same thing I did with FC3. Setting up duplicate repository files
> in /etc/yum.repos.d. I change the $basearch references to i386 and
> rename the file from fedora.repo to fedora-i386.repo. Then you have to
> use yum install package.x86_64 instead of yum install package. Otherwise
> you will get the i386 and x86_64 versions.
> 

yum --enablerepo=development-i386 install firefox.i386
<snip>
Installing:
 firefox                 i386       1.0.4-5          development-i386   18 M
Installing for dependencies:
 libbonoboui             i386       2.8.1-4          development-i386  356 k
 libgnome                i386       2.10.0-3         development-i386  705 k
 libgnomeui              i386       2.10.0-1         development-i386  848 k



Thank you, didn't think of that :D