How to configure yum for install only 64 bit packages? thanks in advance -- -- Open Kairos http://www.openkairos.com Watch More TV http://sebelk.blogspot.com Sergio Belkin -
On Tue, 16 Dec 2008, Sergio Belkin wrote:> How to configure yum for install only 64 bit packages? >man yum.conf look for the word exact ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Jim Wildman, CISSP, RHCE jim at rossberry.com http://www.rossberry.com "Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one." Thomas Paine
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 5:56 AM, Sergio Belkin <sebelk at gmail.com> wrote:> How to configure yum for install only 64 bit packages?With the current version of yum (3.2.8), the easiest way is to add an exclude line in yum.conf like: exclude=*.i386 *.i686 Note that you might want to remove all i386/i585 packages that are already on the system to make it a pure x86_64 system. A newer version of yum has rectified the issue. Some details can be found in this mailing list thread: http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/2008-August/003112.html Akemi
Sergio Belkin wrote:> How to configure yum for install only 64 bit packages? > > thanks in advance >Just thought I throw in that an "official" Sun Java 64bit browser plugin is now available.
2008/12/16 Marco Benton <marco at xssnet.com>:> Sergio Belkin wrote: >> How to configure yum for install only 64 bit packages? >> >> thanks in advance >> > > Just thought I throw in that an "official" Sun Java 64bit browser plugin > is now available. >Thanks for all answers -- -- Open Kairos http://www.openkairos.com Watch More TV http://sebelk.blogspot.com Sergio Belkin -
Marco Benton wrote:> Sergio Belkin wrote: > >> How to configure yum for install only 64 bit packages? >> >> thanks in advance >> >> > > Just thought I throw in that an "official" Sun Java 64bit browser plugin > is now available. >last I looked, with Sun Java you had to install both the 32bit core JVM *and* the 64 bit extensions to get 64bit java. this in turn probably has some basic 32bit library dependencies.
John R Pierce wrote:> Marco Benton wrote: >> Sergio Belkin wrote: >> >>> How to configure yum for install only 64 bit packages? >>> >>> thanks in advance >>> >>> >> Just thought I throw in that an "official" Sun Java 64bit browser plugin >> is now available. >> > > last I looked, with Sun Java you had to install both the 32bit core JVM > *and* the 64 bit extensions to get 64bit java. > > this in turn probably has some basic 32bit library dependencies.dont know how they do it? but I just download 64bit RPM from the EA site. https://jdk6.dev.java.net/6uNea.html works fine so far in my 64bit browser.