Martin Marques writes:
Hi, I have a Compaq Presario with a AMD Trion64 and I noticed that lots of packages get installed in two distinct versions: one for 64bit and another for 32bit system. So I have things like this: # rpm -qa kdeutils kdeutils-3.5.6-3.fc7.x86_64 kdeutils-3.5.6-3.fc7.i386 Is it a bad idea to remove the 32bit package?
No, but due to a bug in rpm, removing the 32bit package will also nuke the man pages and the locale files that are installed by the x86_64 package.
This is not the end of the world, and is easily fixable. After removing each .i386 rpm, you'll need to run rpm -U --replacepkgs on the x86_64 rpm. Lather, rinse, repeat, for each .i386 interloper. Pain in the neck.
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