[Repost] What is "Error: Protected multilib versions"

[drago01]

On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 2:23 PM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones at redhat.com> wrote:
> I still get this error several times a week, and I still have no idea
> what it means or how I'm supposed to respond to it (other than
> fiddling randomly with packages until it goes away).
>
> The latest one:
>
> # yum install /usr/sbin/libvirtd
> [... yum spew deleted ...]
> Error: Protected multilib versions: libvirt-client-0.9.10-2.fc17.i686 != libvirt-client-0.9.10-3.fc17.x86_64
>
> $ rpm -qa | grep libvirt-client
> libvirt-client-0.9.10-3.fc17.x86_64
>
> What does the error mean?

The 32bit and 64bit version of a lib must match.