On 3/28/06, Jack Howarth <howarth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > How are people handling the upgrade of additional i386 packages > installed on x86_64 machines after upgrading to FC5? I assume that > the yum repo files fedora.i386.repo and fedora-updates.i386.repo > should still be a valid approach as long as they reference > $releasever rather than hard coded values. However I have never > managed to get yum to update the i386 packages installed on a x86_64 > machine. Has anyone had luck doing that. It worries me that the > i386 packages aren't as readily updated on these machines (and hence > can become a security issue). > Jack You need to specify the i386 packages when you execute yum install. For example, yum --enablerepo=fedora-i386 install firefox.i386 Of course, this assumes you named the repo "fedora-i386" and not something else. I just removed 64-bit Firefox and installed 32-bit Firefox so I could use the Sun Java plugin. Works fine.
