Re: Building rpms on AMD64

[seth vidal <skvidal phy duke edu>]

On Fri, 2005-01-14 at 12:36 -0500, John Ellson wrote:
> Nick Bargnesi wrote:
> 
> >If I were you - I would check to make sure you also do not have 32-bit
> >X libraries installed.  Part of the full installation you selected
> >installs compat packages allowing you to build for different
> >platforms.  If removing the 32-bit libraries helps, send the solution
> >back to the user list.
> >  
> >
> 
> Related to this.  How does one go about removing 32bit libraries with rpm?
> 
> How do you selectively remove just i386 rpms?    I couldn't find any 
> option in "rpm --help"
> that selects just the rpms of a given architecture.
> 

with rpm you can do:

rpm -e name.arch

with yum you can do the same:

yum remove name.arch

-sv