[CentOS] yum tries to install a mix of architectures

[Ross Walker]

On Mar 7, 2011, at 9:41 AM, Tim Dunphy <bluethundr at gmail.com> wrote:

> On my centos boxes whenever I try to install packages I get a mix of
> packages from the repos that are both i386 and x86_64 in
> archictecture:

Yum doesn't implicitly know if you want the 64 or 32-bit versions so it selects both. If you only want 64-bit put .x86_64 at the end of the package name.

The 32-bit versions are there for 32-bit binary application support.

-Ross