[Leaplist] yum/rpm problem ....

William A. Mahaffey III wam at HiWAAY.net
Thu Aug 23 01:44:39 EDT 2007


Kyle Gonzales wrote:

>In that case, the i386 versions of the rpm-libs and rpm-devel packages
>are not doing you any good.  Remove them, then update.
>
># yum remove rpm-libs.i386 rpm-devel.i386
>
>Unless you are trying to compile 32-bit versions of packages that need
>the devel files for rpm, or use a program that needs the access a
>32-bit version of the rpm api calls, you should be fine.  The 64-bit
>version of the rpm command should not need these packages.
>
>I THINK I remember having a similar problem with FC6 when I had the
>64-bit version loaded on my AMD workstation... that may be the way I
>fixed it.
>  
>

BAM !!!!

Worked like a champ. Why were the 32-bit RPM's there to begin with (I 
don't *think* I put 'em there) ?

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