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

[Reindl Harald]

Am 12.08.2013 16:45, schrieb Ed Greshko:
> On 08/12/13 22:37, Andrew Haley wrote:
>> On 08/12/2013 03:17 PM, Georgios Petasis wrote:
>>> Is there a reason my java 1.7 is not updated to java 1.8 with "yum -y 
>>> update"?
>> java 1.8 doesn't exist.  We've not even finished the spec yet.  There
>> is a preview that people can play with, but it's certainly not an
>> update.
>>
>> Andrew.
>>
> 
> Just curious then.....
> 
> [root at localhost ~]# yum list available | grep java-1.8.0
> java-1.8.0-openjdk.i686                 1:1.8.0.0-0.9.b89.fc19           updates
> java-1.8.0-openjdk.x86_64               1:1.8.0.0-0.9.b89.fc19           updates
> java-1.8.0-openjdk-demo.x86_64          1:1.8.0.0-0.9.b89.fc19           updates
> java-1.8.0-openjdk-devel.i686           1:1.8.0.0-0.9.b89.fc19           updates
> java-1.8.0-openjdk-devel.x86_64         1:1.8.0.0-0.9.b89.fc19           updates
> java-1.8.0-openjdk-javadoc.noarch       1:1.8.0.0-0.9.b89.fc19           updates
> java-1.8.0-openjdk-src.x86_64           1:1.8.0.0-0.9.b89.fc19           updates
> 
> If it is a "preview" wouldn't it make a bit more sense to have it in updates-testing?

why?
this is not the job of "updates-testing"

"java-1.8.0-openjdk" is not the same package as "java-1.7.0-openjdk"
"1.8.0.0-0.9.b89.fc19" is the version part

you can have installed *both*



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