Can't remove package from update manager

[Silent-Hunter]

  On 01/-10/-28163 11:59 AM, JD wrote:
>  On 10/20/2010 09:42 PM, Silent-Hunter wrote:
>>    On 01/-10/-28163 11:59 AM, Frank Cox wrote:
>>> rpm -qa | grep zsnes
>> [silent at TERMINAL-BMRF-9 ~]$ rpm -qa | grep zsnes
>> zsnes-1.51-6.fc11.i586
>>
>> The one listed there is the one I want to keep. The one I don't want is
>> removed, but it's still in the available packages, and it keeps trying
>> to update.
> There are 2 possible reasons:
> 1.
> I believe that when you had installed the 64 bit version,
> you had also installed other packages which in turn depend
> on the presence of the 64 bit  zsnes, which you have removed.
>
> Now, when you run yum update, yum detects the presence of
> packages that depend on the now missing 64 bit zsnes, and it
> tries to install it.
>
> 2.
> Simply because you have kept the 32 bit version of zsnes,
> yum decides to install the 64 bit version, because your
> main architecture is 64 bit.
>
> You can instruct yum to ignore 64 bit, and stick to 32 bits only,
> but that would be way too drastic, since you had intimated that
> your architecture is x86_64.
>
>
>
Is there a way to fix this?