[rhelv6-list] Install 32-Bitt runtime libraries

cpolish at surewest.net cpolish at surewest.net
Sat Nov 20 02:56:37 UTC 2010


Gary Gatling wrote:

> I was able to install the 32 bit packages on a RHEL 6 64 bit machine post 
> install without too much typing like this.
> 
> rpm -qa | grep x86_64 | sed 's at x86_64@i686@' > packagelist
> for i in `cat packagelist`;do yum -y install $i;done
> 
> "yum install *.i?86" didn't work when I tried it (there was a conflict 
> and it also seemed like it was trying to install everything under the 
> sun?) and changing multilib_policy to "all" didn't seem to automagically 
> get the packages when I did a yum update. Maybe I was doing something 
> wrong. So maybe this is the simplest way without making a kickstart and 
> adding all the packages into that. (like foo.i686)
> 
> If anyone knows an easier/better way I'd like to hear about it. I'm going 
> to need the 32 bit libraries for certain apps (like flash) and some of the 
> code some students compiled here when we were still 32 bit only.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Gary Gatling      | ITECS Systems

A slight tweak eliminates the temp file:
rpm -qa | grep x86_64 | sed 's at x86_64@i686@' | xargs yum -y install
-- 
Charles Polisher




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