Yum - i386 packages on x86_64

[Rahul Sundaram]

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 ?

# yum install foo.arch

Rahul