64 bit F7

[Kam Leo]

On 7/17/07, Alan M. Evans <fedoralist at alanevans.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 14:02 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote:
> >     I think you answered my question. I am able to yum things for my 32
> > bit Linux and all the updates they send out are for 32 bit machines. If
> > I were to go 64 bit I need to FTP the RPM files and and install them
> > myself.
>
> I'm not sure what leads you to say this. Have you ever even tried?
>
> Observe as I update my Athlon64 X2 workstation with yum:
>
>        [root at skyhawk ~]# yum update
>        Loading "installonlyn" plugin
>        Loading "fastestmirror" plugin
>        Setting up Update Process
>        Setting up repositories
>        Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
>        Reading repository metadata in from local files
>        Resolving Dependencies
>        --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
>        ---> Package gimp.x86_64 2:2.2.17-1.fc6 set to be updated
>        ---> Package nfs-utils.x86_64 1:1.0.10-14.fc6 set to be updated
>        ---> Package gimp-libs.x86_64 2:2.2.17-1.fc6 set to be updated
>        --> Running transaction check
>
>        Dependencies Resolved
>
>        =============================================================================
>         Package                 Arch       Version          Repository        Size
>        =============================================================================
>        Updating:
>         gimp                    x86_64     2:2.2.17-1.fc6   updates            10 M
>         gimp-libs               x86_64     2:2.2.17-1.fc6   updates           423 k
>         nfs-utils               x86_64     1:1.0.10-14.fc6  updates           347 k
>
>        Transaction Summary
>        =============================================================================
>        Install      0 Package(s)
>        Update       3 Package(s)
>        Remove       0 Package(s)
>
>        Total download size: 11 M
>        Is this ok [y/N]:


That holds until you try to run multimedia. We're a ways off from
getting all multimedia packages in a 64-bit version.