dumb question

[Phebe_Mertes at aotx.uscourts.gov]

Dear Mark,

the i686 was used to address Pentium Pro or better systems. If you are
running 64 bit then the system is better. The i686 are for the 32 bit
applications. If the 32 bit and the 64 bit libraries are not the same exact
version of each other on the 64 bit machine, that might be a problem. Or
maybe your 32 bit applications really need an older 32 bit library. So far
in the work I am doing with testing installing certain applications on a
RHEL5.3 box I am finding the RHEL5.3 releases of 32 bit libraries to work
just fine whether it has the designation of i386 or i686.

Phebe Mertes
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Phebe_Mertes at aotx.uscourts.gov wrote:
> Yes you can install both and I do install both of several libs
> and I don't have it handy but I think a previous post in this list
> explained how the packages can discern which architecture lib they want

Actually, I *did* find what my problem was with trying to upgrade a client
system using Spacewalk: CentOS users beware: in the x86_64 repositories,
there
are a number of not i386 but i686 packages. *Those* were what cratered my
upgrades.

             mark

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