How can I install 32-bit packages in 64-bit system?

[Georgios Petasis]

Στις 12/8/2013 17:02, ο/η Todor Petkov έγραψε:
> On 12/08/2013 01:17 PM, Georgios Petasis wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Up to fedora 18, I was used to install 32-bit packages in my 64-bit
>> system by adding the ".i686" as suffix for the package.
>> However, this does not seem to work for some packages in fedora 19.
>> For example:
>>
>> # yum install java-1.7.0-openjdk.i686
>> Loaded plugins: auto-update-debuginfo, langpacks, refresh-packagekit
>> adobe-linux-x86_64                                       |  951 B     
>> 00:00
>> fedora/19/x86_64/metalink                                |  32 kB     
>> 00:00
>> fedora                                                   | 4.2 kB     
>> 00:00
>> updates/19/x86_64/metalink                               |  30 kB     
>> 00:00
>> updates                                                  | 4.6 kB     
>> 00:00
>> (1/2): updates/19/x86_64/primary_db                        | 6.8 MB   
>> 00:07
>> (2/2): fedora/19/x86_64/primary_db                         |  17 MB   
>> 00:12
>> adobe-linux-x86_64/primary                                 | 1.2 kB   
>> 00:00
>> fedora/19/x86_64/group_gz                                | 384 kB     
>> 00:00
>> updates/19/x86_64/group_gz                               | 385 kB     
>> 00:00
>> adobe-linux-x86_64 2/2
>> No package java-1.7.0-openjdk.i686 available.
>> Error: Nothing to do
>>
>> How can I fix this? I had similar problems with boost-static (due to
>> a missing dependency), and I downloaded the rpm file & manually
>> installed it. Is there a better solution?
>>
>> George
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>
>
> Hello,
>
> you are using fedora 19, right? It comes with java 1.8.
>
> Regards,
>
>
>
Is there a reason my java 1.7 is not updated to java 1.8 with "yum -y 
update"?
I had the impression that 1.8 was a "preview" release.

George