multilib and i386 rpms on x86_64
Justin Conover
justin.conover at gmail.com
Fri Jul 1 18:27:05 UTC 2005
On 7/1/05, Nathan Grennan <fedora-test-list at cygnusx-1.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-06-30 at 23:50 -0500, Justin Conover wrote:
> > Did I miss something along the way of running rawhide that it seems
> > that for example firefox.i386 and helixplayer aren't able to install?
> >
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=155790
> >
> > That was closed, but I don't seem to be able to yum install firefox.i386
>
> I do remember being able to installed i386 packages while using FC4
> Test releases. I noticed it wasn't the same in FC4. I ended up doing the
> same thing I did with FC3. Setting up duplicate repository files
> in /etc/yum.repos.d. I change the $basearch references to i386 and
> rename the file from fedora.repo to fedora-i386.repo. Then you have to
> use yum install package.x86_64 instead of yum install package. Otherwise
> you will get the i386 and x86_64 versions.
>
yum --enablerepo=development-i386 install firefox.i386
<snip>
Installing:
firefox i386 1.0.4-5 development-i386 18 M
Installing for dependencies:
libbonoboui i386 2.8.1-4 development-i386 356 k
libgnome i386 2.10.0-3 development-i386 705 k
libgnomeui i386 2.10.0-1 development-i386 848 k
Thank you, didn't think of that :D
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