odd? Or not?

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Wed Oct 25 12:53:31 UTC 2006


Scott van Looy wrote:
> just asked Yum to install the kernel-devel package. Why has it offered 
> to install both architectures? Is this correct? I'm new to x86_64 ;)
> 
> Dependencies Resolved
> 
> ============================================================================= 
> 
>  Package                 Arch       Version          Repository Size
> ============================================================================= 
> 
> Installing:
>  kernel-devel            i686       2.6.18-1.2798.fc6  core 4.6 M
>  kernel-devel            x86_64     2.6.18-1.2798.fc6  core 4.8 M
> 
> Transaction Summary
> ============================================================================= 

This is normal. If you only want the one architecture, you need to tell 
that to yum:

# yum install kernel-devel.x86_64

Paul.




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