Re: Install of base system failed --- Why ?

[Maki Pavlidis <maki students cs mu OZ AU>]

On Thu, 1 Oct 1998, Mathew Anoop V(IAC-BLR) wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I got the following error at the beginning of the install of the RPM
> packages :
> 
> RPM install of basesystem failed: package basesystem-4.9-1 is for a
> different architecture.
> 
> The name of my RPM package is BASESYST.RPM which from the translation table
> (TRANS.TBL) is basesystem-4.9-1.noarch.rpm (i.e.. it is not an "i386" rpm,
> is this a problem ?).

Yes, this is definitely the problem!!
You cannot use these program files if they compiled for use on a non-intel
system.
You must download the (sometimes available) source rpm, and then
compile it yourself, if there is no i386 one available.

Maki