[CentOS] Re: X86_64, Groupinstall KDE fails

[Karanbir Singh]

Scott Silva wrote:
> Karanbir Singh spake the following on 4/17/2006 1:45 PM:
>> Benjamin Smith wrote:
>>> Thanks.
>>> What you wrote led me to a google search which resulted in this link:
>>> https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/pipermail/yum/2005-August/007269.html
>>>
>>> which had a line to do a yum exclude which allowed me to get it to
>>> fly. It's now going thru 171 packages.... w00T...
>>>
>> wait!
>>
>> dont just add that line in there, first make sure you yum erase all your
>> 32bit apps and rpm's ( yum erase *.i386 *.i586 *.i686 ), otherwise you
>> are going to leave behind a large number of orphaned rpm's.
>>
>> if you need those 32bit apps, consider just excluding the
>> fontconfig.i386 rpm. its a problem known since early 4.0 release days :(
>>
>>
> Or do rpm -e --justdb --nodeps fontconfig
> 
> 

are you sure this wont create any orphans ?


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