> I'm new to the world of YUM and need some newbie help. I've got RHEL > running on an Opteron box and need to have BOTH the x86_64 and i[36]86 > versions of some RPM pacakges installed. These are ALL library > packages. > > When I do, for example, "yum install glibc", it tells me it is already > installed. > > For what it's worth, I've patched archwork.py as described in > https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/pipermail/yum/2003-November/002874.html > > How do I tell yum to install the i[36]86 version of the glibc RPM > package? hmm so you need to specifically install a certain architecture of the various libraries. This is not something that is being handled at the moment. > I also need both 64 and 32 bit versions of the XFree86 libs and > everything they depend on... I know I can use rpm to install them > manually, but I'm investigating YUM to avoid this... I'm not familiar with the build on RHEL but is the above even possible using rpm from the command line? -sv
