Hi,
I installed centos-4.4 on x86_64, and I wanted to install nx and freenx from the centos extras. But
yum list available '*nx*
gives me only
yum list available '*nx*' Setting up repositories Reading repository metadata in from local files Available Packages lynx.x86_64 2.8.5-18.2 base
Question: How, by using yum, can I install i386-packages or noarch-packages on a x86_64 centos? Any help appreciated.
Regards
On Thursday 11 January 2007 02:20, Joachim Backes wrote:
Hi,
I installed centos-4.4 on x86_64, and I wanted to install nx and freenx from the centos extras. But
yum list available '*nx*
gives me only
yum list available '*nx*' Setting up repositories Reading repository metadata in from local files Available Packages lynx.x86_64 2.8.5-18.2 base
Question: How, by using yum, can I install i386-packages or noarch-packages on a x86_64 centos? Any help appreciated.
The exact same way you install any other package. If i386 or noarch packages are available, they will be listed. In this case, none matched your search, the most likely cause is that you don't have the extras repository enabled.
This is why doing a quick google search or list archive search is always suggested, as this question (the nx portion) was answered for someone else by Karanbir less than two hours before you posted this.
See http://wiki.centos.org/FreeNX (Karanbir's suggestion).
Kevan Benson wrote:
On Thursday 11 January 2007 02:20, Joachim Backes wrote:
Hi,
I installed centos-4.4 on x86_64, and I wanted to install nx and freenx from the centos extras. But
yum list available '*nx*
gives me only yum list available '*nx*' Setting up repositories Reading repository metadata in from local files Available Packages lynx.x86_64 2.8.5-18.2 base
Question: How, by using yum, can I install i386-packages or noarch-packages on a x86_64 centos? Any help appreciated.
The exact same way you install any other package. If i386 or noarch packages are available, they will be listed. In this case, none matched your search, the most likely cause is that you don't have the extras repository enabled.
This is why doing a quick google search or list archive search is always suggested, as this question (the nx portion) was answered for someone else by Karanbir less than two hours before you posted this.
I did it (i'm not a LINUX newcomer). See below!!! ;-)
See http://wiki.centos.org/FreeNX (Karanbir's suggestion).
Hi Kevan, I do not agree with you. I did a fresh CentOS install. Please have a look at
http://wiki.centos.org/Repositories
On this page you will find:
-------------------------------------- snip --------------------------------------------------- CentOS Extras - This repository is for items that provide additional functionality to CentOS without breaking upstream compatibility or updating base components. The CentOS development team has tested every item in this repository, and they build and work under CentOS-4. They have not been tested by the upstream provider, and are not available in the upstream products. This repository is shipped with CentOS, and is enabled by default. -------------------------------------- snip ----------------------------------------------------
The last line says: then CentOS extras repository is enabled by default.
Regards
On Fri, 2007-01-12 at 07:02 +0100, Joachim Backes wrote:
Kevan Benson wrote:
On Thursday 11 January 2007 02:20, Joachim Backes wrote:
Hi,
I installed centos-4.4 on x86_64, and I wanted to install nx and freenx from the centos extras. But
yum list available '*nx*
gives me only yum list available '*nx*' Setting up repositories Reading repository metadata in from local files Available Packages lynx.x86_64 2.8.5-18.2 base
Question: How, by using yum, can I install i386-packages or noarch-packages on a x86_64 centos? Any help appreciated.
The exact same way you install any other package. If i386 or noarch packages are available, they will be listed. In this case, none matched your search, the most likely cause is that you don't have the extras repository enabled.
This is why doing a quick google search or list archive search is always suggested, as this question (the nx portion) was answered for someone else by Karanbir less than two hours before you posted this.
I did it (i'm not a LINUX newcomer). See below!!! ;-)
See http://wiki.centos.org/FreeNX (Karanbir's suggestion).
Hi Kevan, I do not agree with you. I did a fresh CentOS install. Please have a look at
http://wiki.centos.org/Repositories
On this page you will find:
-------------------------------------- snip --------------------------------------------------- CentOS Extras - This repository is for items that provide additional functionality to CentOS without breaking upstream compatibility or updating base components. The CentOS development team has tested every item in this repository, and they build and work under CentOS-4. They have not been tested by the upstream provider, and are not available in the upstream products. This repository is shipped with CentOS, and is enabled by default. -------------------------------------- snip ----------------------------------------------------
The last line says: then CentOS extras repository is enabled by default.
The NX items are not in x86_64 repo ... as many i386 items are not.
You can download them and install them by hand or use the ones from the x86_64 testing repo (which will be moved into both i386 and x86_64 extras after a little more testing).
The code from nomachine.org does not compile on x86_64, so you will need i386 packages (like glibc, etc.) to install NX on x86_64.
The easiest way ... download the nx and freenx RPMS from here and put them in a directory on your Machine by themselves:
http://dev.centos.org/centos/4/testing/i386/RPMS/freenx-0.5.0-12.el4.centos....
http://dev.centos.org/centos/4/testing/i386/RPMS/nx-2.1.0-4.el4.centos.i386....
install them with the command:
yum localinstall freenx-0.5.0-12.el4.centos.i386.rpm nx-2.1.0-4.el4.centos.i386.rpm
(all one line)
Thanks, Johnny Hughes
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Kevan Benson