After the mention earlier today of putting i386 support back into a Fedora 8 installation after having removed all i386 rpms, I decided to try it and see what happens. Scientific experimentation and all that.... I removed the exclude line from my yum.conf and typed "yum install firefox.i386" I got a list of 77 rpms to download (all i386) and said to proceed. After downloading, I got this: QUOTE: Downloading Packages: Running rpm_check_debug ERROR with rpm_check_debug vs depsolve: Package devhelp needs libgtkembedmoz.so()(64bit), this is not available. Package yelp needs libgtkembedmoz.so()(64bit), this is not available. Package yelp needs libxpcom_core.so()(64bit), this is not available. Package java-1.7.0-icedtea-plugin needs libxpcom.so()(64bit), this is not available. Package devhelp needs libxpcom.so()(64bit), this is not available. Package yelp needs libxpcom.so()(64bit), this is not available. Package devhelp needs gecko-libs = 1.8.1.12, this is not available. Package yelp needs gecko-libs = 1.8.1.12, this is not available. Complete! END OF QUOTE I then created a list of all of the i386 rpms on another of my F8 computers, this one an x86_64 installation that I had never removed the i386 rpms from. I did this to create the list: rpm -qa --qf "%{NAME}.%{ARCH}\n" | grep -v 'x86_64\|noarch\|gpg-pubkey' > list I then copied that list to my x86_64-only computer and did this: yum -y install $(cat list) And after running through the whole list of packages, I got this error: QUOTE --> Finished Dependency Resolution Error: Missing Dependency: control-center-filesystem = 1:2.20.1-5.fc8 is needed by package control-center END OF QUOTE On my "other computer" where I got the list of i386 rpms from, I see that I have two versions of control-center-filesystem, as you see here: QUOTE: $ rpm -q control-center-filesystem control-center-filesystem-2.20.1-5.fc8 control-center-filesystem-2.20.3-2.fc8 END OF QUOTE So, what am I doing wrong here? -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list