[K12OSN] Local i386 apps on an X86_64 server?
C. Duncan Hudson
ltsp at dunc-it.com
Wed Jul 8 17:57:50 UTC 2009
Dan Young wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 7:57 AM, C. Duncan Hudson<ltsp at dunc-it.com> wrote:
>
>> I have LTSP 5 installed on an existing Fedora 10 server - the server is an
>> X86_64 machine, and the clients are all i386. Everything is working fine,
>> but I'd like to run local apps, but I'm having no luck. I've rebuilt the
>> image, chrooted into /opt/ltsp/i386. But when I try to yum install just
>> about anything I get conflicts between the installed x86_64 packages and the
>> corresponding i386 packages. Is there an easy way to get around this?
>>
>
> Did you "setarch i386" when you chroot into /opt/ltsp/i386? I.e.:
>
> setarch i386 chroot /opt/ltsp/i386
> yum install foo
>
No, I didn't realize that I had to do that - thanks. So now, after
doing the setarch, I no longer get the complaining about the 64 bit
packages. But I also find no packages are available. Is this simply a
matter of adding the 386 repository to my yum.repos.d directory? Thanks
again,
Duncan
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