Installing i386 packages via yum on a x86_64 F9 based system

Armin feng.shaun at gmail.com
Thu Jul 31 19:28:24 UTC 2008


On Thursday 31 July 2008 11:48:46 Ubence Quevedo wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> I recently reformatted my x86_64 F9 based system, and somehow 
before the
> format I was able to install i386 packages via yum [I forgot exactly 
how I
> did this].  Now after the reformat, when I try to specify i386 packages 
to
> install [yum list *.i386], I get no results returned.  Is there a specific
> repo I need to enable to access the i386 packages?  The reason for 
this
> question is because I manually installed the x86 version of Firefox, and
> the required libraries and files to run i386 Firefox aren't installed as
> part of the x86_64 install.
>
> Can someone please advise on how I can install i386 packages via 
yum on a
> x86_64 based system?
>
> Thanx!
>
> -Ubence
with $ yum install foobar.i386

-- 
Armin




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