'yum --enablerepo' command (Newbie).

Gordon Messmer yinyang at eburg.com
Tue Apr 11 07:33:14 UTC 2006


Brian Durant wrote:
> I am a Fedora Core 5 PPC64 user and am curious about the 'yum 
> --enablerepo' command. If I wanted to run 'yum --enablerepo=atrpms 
> install w32codec' would yum be able to sort out whether there was a PPC 
> or PPC64 version of "w32codec" or not? Do all repositories also have PPC 
> and PPC64 versions or are there only certain repositories that contain 
> PPC and PPC64 versions, like FreshRPMS?

AFAIK, the "w32codec" package contains DLLs taken from Windows, which 
are executable i386 files.  They're only going to be available for i386 
platforms.




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