Re: [CentOS] i386 packages on fresh x86_64 system

On 18.1.2011 18:07, Kai Schaetzl wrote:

Even a minimal install with nobase installs about 40-50 i386 packages on a 64bit-System. I know this has come up before and thought it might be an FAQ, but I can't find it on the wiki.

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• is it safe to rpm -e remove all i386 packages? (assuming I'm not going

to install any i386 packages later)

I tried that on a fresh install. Note that I had only 6 i386 packages. I think this is because our kickstart is excluding some stuff to get closer to the "minimal install".

$ rpm -qa --queryformat "%{name} %{arch}\n"|grep "i.86" libtermcap i386 libgcc i386 glibc i686 readline i386 libhugetlbfs i386 mkinitrd i386

Removed that. Reboot was fine.