FC13, Installing 32 bit Libs on a 64 bit box

[Stephen Gallagher]

On 06/03/2010 01:44 PM, Jim wrote:
> On 06/03/2010 01:10 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>> On Thu, 2010-06-03 at 12:52 -0400, Jim wrote:
>>
>>> On 06/03/2010 12:41 PM, Nicolae Ghimbovschi wrote:
>>>
>>>> Append .i686 to the package name you are installing using yum.
>>>>
>>>> yum install packagename.i686
>>>>
>>>> e.g.
>>>> yum install libtiff.i686
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 19:33, Jim<mickeyboa at sbcglobal.net>   wrote:
>>>>           FC13/KDE
>>>>
>>>>           How do I install 32 bit Libs on a 64 bit box ?
>>>>
>>>>           I have SDL installed.
>>>>
>>>>           This would be a good addition to Yum.
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>>>
>>> I can understand that , but I don't know the names of all the lib.i686
>>> files.
>>>
>> $ repoquery \*lib\*i686\*
>>
>> (repoquery is from yum-utils, in case you don't have it)
>>
>> poc
>>
>>
> Yeah that does give you all the Libs , but also picks out all the
> *-devel packages to.
> I don't see the need for having a lot Devel files installed.

You could get a list of all libs currently installed on your system with:
rpm -qa |grep "lib.*

You could output that to a file, do a global find-replace of
s/x86_64/i686/
and then pipe all of that into yum install.

Though I agree, it probably would be a nice feature to add something 
like "--all-multilib" to yum, so that it would automatically pull in 
both multilib versions of anything you [had] installed.

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