On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 01:11:01PM +0200, Andreas Bernauer wrote: > David Jansen wrote on Wed, Jul 18 2007 at 11:10 (+0200): > > A user at our institute has a program that comes as a binary rpm, and > > needs qt4. But the program is built as a 32-bit executable, and the > > computer is a 64-but system. Now there doesn't seem to be a i386 rpm of > > qt4 in Fedora Extras for FC6. Does anyone know why? > > I noticed the i386 package exists for Fedora 7 so maybe an upgrade will > > do the trick, but on the other hand, the makers of the program told us > > it was only tested for FC5, FC6 and RHEL4 so maybe we will run into a > > new set of problems after the upgrade. > > Would installing the qt4 package from an fc6 i386 repository be > > compatible or are those packages different from the i386 packages in a > > x86_64 repository? > > Besides that your question does not make sense given your statements > above (how can you install an fc6 i386 qt4 if there is no such?), you > could try compile your i386 version of qt4 yourself by installing the > source rpm package of the x86_64 version and compile it targetting an > i386 ISA. > > Andreas. It exists in the i386 repository of Fedora Extras, not in the x86_64 repository. But I don't know if it would be safe to mix packages like that, there must be a reason why no qt4.i386 exists in the x86_64 repository, although I haven't found such a reason in the changlog or the spec file of the rpm. I'll give it a try to recompile the rpms. David
