On 6/19/05, Jack Howarth <howarth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Jonathan, > Okay, so I read you response to imply that if I used 'rpm -Uvh' > to install a i386 package which is already installed in the x86_64 > architecture that it would remove the x86_64 version in favor of the > i386 one, correct? Actually, I think that it should not. I haven't tested it, though. The two packages are different and handled separately by rpm, so why would it try to upgrade a different package? There could be problems if the two packages share some files, in which case they probably are not meant to be used together. Again, if you saw the FC3 perl upgrade problem, this is what was going on there. > Also is it still true that if 'yum install' is used to install > a package that both the i386 and x86_64 versions will be installed > if they exist? > Jack Yes, this is correct. I have seen this several times. If you want only one of them, tell yum using the proper extension (.i386 or .x86_64). I would advise using yum to install packages over rpm as the 32-bit packages in the x86_64 yum tree are the ones that are "officially supported" (for lack of a better term). The only exception to this might be firefox.i386 if you want to run it *instead* of the 64-bit version to use flash and/or java. Jonathan
