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

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Thu, Apr 05, 2012 at 02:13:34PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 05, 2012 at 01:23:28PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones 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?
> 
> You have both the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of libvirt-client-0.9.10-2.fc17
> installed.  Your yum update command is trying to pull in the libvirt-client-0.9.10-3.fc17
> and is only finding the x86_64 version in your yum repos.
> 
> Either you manually installed a 32bit RPM that was not via the yum
> repos, or your yum repos have lost the 32-bit RPMs, or perhaps you
> have blacklisted 32-bit RPMs in your yum conf.

Oh, and incidentally you don't want to be install the
0.9.10-3.fc17 version of libvirt - it has broken packaging
and was unpushed & replaced by 0.9.11-1.fc17.  Sadly there
seems to be quite a delay in Bohdi updating F17 repos currently :-(


Daniel
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