On Sun, 2008-06-01 at 13:20 -0700, Paolo Galtieri wrote: > Today I installed F9 on an x86_64 laptop which previously was running F8 > and so far I find F9 to be a regression from F8. In F8 when I ran: > > yum -y install gtk2 > > it would install both the i386 version and the x86_64 version of the > package. In F9 it only installs the x86_64 version, I have to explicitly > install the i386 version. Why the regression? > > The reason I see this as a problem is if you download the Adobe acrobat > reader package for Linux from Adobe it is built for i386 and > consequently will not install unless you install the required i386 > packages. If you use yum to install, it *should* sort itself out: yum --nogpg localinstall adobepackage.rpm yum will download any dependencies it needs. > Furthermore: > > [root@localhost ~]# yum list all gtk+ > Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit > Available Packages > gtk+.i386 1:1.2.10-61.fc9 > fedora > gtk+.x86_64 1:1.2.10-61.fc9 > fedora > > shows both the i386 and the x86_64 versions, but: > > yum -y install "gtk+*" > > Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit > Setting up Install Process > Parsing package install arguments > Resolving Dependencies > --> Running transaction check > ---> Package gtk+-devel.x86_64 1:1.2.10-61.fc9 set to be updated > --> Processing Dependency: glib-devel for package: gtk+-devel > ---> Package gtk+extra-devel.x86_64 0:2.1.1-8.fc9 set to be updated > ---> Package gtk+extra.x86_64 0:2.1.1-8.fc9 set to be updated > ---> Package gtk+.x86_64 1:1.2.10-61.fc9 set to be updated > --> Processing Dependency: libgmodule-1.2.so.0()(64bit) for package: gtk+ > --> Processing Dependency: libglib-1.2.so.0()(64bit) for package: gtk+ > --> Running transaction check > ---> Package glib.x86_64 1:1.2.10-29.fc9 set to be updated > ---> Package glib-devel.x86_64 1:1.2.10-29.fc9 set to be updated > --> Finished Dependency Resolution > > Dependencies Resolved > > ============================================================================= > Package Arch Version Repository Size > ============================================================================= > Installing: > gtk+ x86_64 1:1.2.10-61.fc9 fedora 957 k > gtk+-devel x86_64 1:1.2.10-61.fc9 fedora 355 k > gtk+extra x86_64 2.1.1-8.fc9 fedora 335 k > gtk+extra-devel x86_64 2.1.1-8.fc9 fedora 735 k > Installing for dependencies: > glib x86_64 1:1.2.10-29.fc9 fedora > 146 k > glib-devel x86_64 1:1.2.10-29.fc9 fedora 39 k > > Only installed the x86_64 packages, when I would have expected, via the > globbing syntax, that yum would have installed all packages matching gtk+. > > So what's going on and how do I force yum to always install both the > i386 and x86_64 versions of a package? I doubt you really want to so that in the general case. poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
