On 3/27/12 10:39 AM, Martin Langhoff wrote:
I am diagnosing a bug/odditywith a python library that uses Pyrex and other oddities. In the course of that, I have installed python.i686 on my F16 x86_64 system, and I'm trying to run it and... no dice! According to rpm, python.x86_64 and python.i686 both own /usr/bin/python and /usr/bin/python2.7 . Those binaries are 64 bits. Googling around, I cannot find any clue on how to run the 32 bit binary. Had optimistically assumed that I'd find python.i686 stashed somewhere when I looked at rpm -ql python.686 ...
Welcome to rpm. ELF files have a wacky concept called "color", which means you can have both .i686 and .x86_64 versions of the same package installed with no conflict and the x86_64 version wins on disk.
Use a chroot or an i686 vm. Or possibly just do rpmdev-extract on the i686 version and run it directly.
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