Failed attempt installing AdobeReader_enu.i486 (WORKAROUND)

Steven P. Ulrick lists-fedora at afolkey2.net
Fri Jun 4 09:40:00 UTC 2010


> Hello Everyone,
> When I attempt to do this:
> yum install AdobeReader_enu.i486
> 
> this is the result:
>   package nss-softokn-freebl-3.12.4-19.fc13.x86_64 (which is newer than nss-
> softokn-freebl-3.12.4-17.fc13.i686) is already installed
> 
> Does anyone know why the x86_64 & i686 versions of nss-softokn-freebl are ever 
> so slightly different?
> 
> With all this in mind, how does a guy go about installing AdobeReader_enu.i486 
> on a 64bit install of Fedora 13?

Well, I came up with a temporary solution.  I downgraded nss-softokn-freebl.

It's kind of interesting the downgrading nss-softokn-freebl only affected one 
package, but "yum remove nss-softokn-freebl" would remove 2041 packages...

Anyway, I have a temporary workaround.

Steven P. Ulrick


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