How to remove packages by arch?

[Jesus Jr M Salvo]

On 10/10/2007, Peter Gordon <peter at thecodergeek.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 17:09 -0500, John Pierce wrote:
> > Hello, I just installed the 64 bit version of fedora 7 and I would
> > like to be able to get rid of the i386 packages.  I have almost 2 of
> > everything installed, and not just the devel packages.
>
> You can use globbing ("*" and "?") along with the "package_name.arch"
> format to remove all 32-bit packages as follows:
>
> # yum remove '*.i?86'
>
> Note that if you want to install a package in the future, specifying the
> name will default to installing all possible arches, if there is more
> than one. If you do not wish for this to happen, you can use the exclude
> key along with the same glob as above to prevent Yum from installing
> _any_ 32-bit packages in the future by adding "exclude=*.i?86" to
> your /etc/yum.conf file.
>
> Hope that helps.
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But if you are using nspluginwrapper to run 32-bit plugins ( e.g.:
flash ) in firefox, they may not work anymore. Correct ?

John