Automatically installing 32-bit libraries on 64-bit machine? (RHEL3)

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Hi all,

We're using KickStart for clusters and Linux deployment in general, and for the most part we are happy with this. Recently however we have acquired some 64-bit machines to be added into our cluster and there are some issues here.

We would like to make these resources available for 64-bit computing, and have therefore installed primarily 64-bit libraries on them. However, most of our users run 32-bit applications. At this point there is not enough need for exclusively 64-bit machines, but I would like to make the platform available.

According to a colleague there is a way with yum to specify that whenever installing a package, a 32-bit version of the package, if available, will be installed. I am not familiar with yum and am limited to RHEL3, up2date, and rpm, but this is the functionality I am looking for.

I have looked at the documentation for KickStart (RHEL3 and RHEL4) as well as browser this mailing list for information, and of course I've searched the web--nada. Does anybody have any suggestions for how to handle this?

Thanks,
Drew.

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Drew Leske :: Systems Group/Unix, Computing Services, University of Victoria
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