yum is installing both i386 and x86_64 for everything

[Jesse Keating]

On Tuesday 22 May 2007 18:02:16 Tom Horsley wrote:
> Actually I have a different problem. I was just fixing up some breakage
> in my f7t4 partition by manually installing some things and if I do
> something like:
>
> yum install libwhatever.so.1
>
> it only installs the i386 library even though I wanted both. Fortunately
> the output from that install allows me to determine that the library
> is in the rpm named whatever-libs so I can then:
>
> yum install whatever-libs.x86_64
>
> and get the missing 64 bit version.

You'd need to do 'yum install /usr/lib64/libwhatever.so.1' or 'yum 
install "libwhatever.so.1()(64bit)" as that is what the provides are in the 
package.  (not sure this second one will work, but using the full path will 
certainly work)

-- 
Jesse Keating
Release Engineer: Fedora
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