Yum - i386 packages on x86_64

[Chris G]

On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 10:58:35AM +0100, Tom Brown wrote:
> Hi
>
> I need to install some i386 packages onto my x86_64 machine and i wonder if 
> i can do this with yum? I have configured yum so that it can see both 
> repo's and i can list the contents of the i386 repo so i wonder where a 
> package is present in both repo's how do i specify which to install.
>
> i thought
>
> yum install foo --arch=i386 might work but it does not - any ideas ?
>
Look at the MISC section in 'man yum', it tells you how to specify
package names:-

       Specifying package names
              A  package can be referred to for install,update,list,remove etc
              with any of the following:

              name
              name.arch
              name-ver
              name-ver-rel
              name-ver-rel.arch
              name-epoch:ver-rel.arch
              epoch:name-ver-rel.arch

              For example: yum remove kernel-2.4.1-10.i686


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Chris Green