Jeff Vian wrote:
On Mon, 2006-11-06 at 09:01 +0000, Neil Bird wrote:
A friend updated his box FC4 to FC6 recently, and it didn't go too well.
One of the things I've noticed is that he has >300 'duplicate' RPM
entries, with both i386 & x86_64 versions apparently installed on top of
each other.
Looking at the release/updates repos., there are lots of i386 & x86_64
RPMs alongside each other there.
Is that right?
There are still a lot of 32 bit packages that need to run in the 64 bit
environment. The list in the repo is usually those that fit that
category. If he has those that are not in the repo then you can
manually clean them up by doing an "rpm -e <package.i686> for those that
should be removed.
However, if he has a LOT of i686 and x86_64 packages it seems likely
that he did an upgrade which _does not_ remove all the 32bit packages as
would be needed for a clean update. For a better environment and to
make sure all is truly an FC6 install it is recommended that you do a
clean install and not an upgrade.
To do it cleanly you would need to do the update as a new install.
Unlikely to help. The trend is towards having *more* i386 packages in
the x86_64 repo, not less. See:
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2006-October/msg00722.html
Whilst some of us would like to be able to easily install a "pure"
64-bit system, some regard the omission of 32-bit support as "crippling
the OS".
Paul.
