[CentOS] conflict error installing ghostscript

[Erick Perez]

Thanks Johnny, I'll try that and see how much more I can reduce a
minimum install.

On 7/16/06, Johnny Hughes <mailing-lists at hughesjr.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-07-09 at 10:36 -0500, Erick Perez wrote:
> > How can I make sure my x86_64 system does not download i686 or i386
> > stuff? Does it need to?
>
> Maybe ... :)
>
> Not everything that can install from the x86_64 tree is x86_64.
> OpenOffice.org is one package, there are others, that are i386 only.  If
> you don't need any of the i386/i586/i686 packages you can remove them
> and prevent them form trying to be installed.
>
> The first thing you need to do is add this to a file called .rpmmacros
> in your user's home directory:
>
> %_query_all_fmt %%{name}-%%{version}-%%{release}.%%{arch}
>
> Then when you do "rpm -q" items, it will also show you the arch.
>
> Then you can do:
>
> rpm -qa | grep i[3,4,5,6]86 | sort
>
> to see what x86 packages are installed on your machine.
>
> Then you can see if you have to have them, or can remove them.
>
> THIS IS CRITICAL :) ... If you remove x86 type packages where both x86
> and x86_64 packages are installed, reinstall the x86_64 packages after
> you are done ... this is because a file can only belong to 1 package, so
> some files you need may have belonged to the package you removed, and
> will be reinstalled when you reinstall the x86_64 packages.
>
> If you can get rid of all the x86 packages, you can then add this
> to /etc/yum.conf
>
> exclude=*.i386 *.i586 *.i686
>
> You will then not add anything except x86_64 packages with yum.
>
> Thanks,
> Johnny Hughes
>
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