18 Feb
2010
18 Feb
'10
3:23 p.m.
Niki Kovacs wrote:
Hi,
I just installed CentOS 5.4 on a 64bit-server. It's the first time I work with this sort of hardware. Doing rpm -qa | sort | less shows that most of the packages seem to be installed twice: once for i386 architecture, and then again for x86_64.
Is this normal? Or did I mess up something during install (thought I wouldn't know what)?
This is normal and almost everyone (including me) asks about it when they install their first 64-bit system. :)
The 32-bit packages are installed for backward-compatibility with any 32-bit programs you may want to run.
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Bowie