On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 4:54 PM, jacob@aers.ca wrote:

Add the .x64_86 extension to the package you want to install

yum install nvurses-devel.x86_64

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From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Eduardo Silvestre Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2009 8:33 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: [CentOS] Double packages

Hello,

i'm trying install some packages with x64_86 architecture and got same packages doubling (32 and 64 bits). How can i force yum just install packages x64_86 based?

[root@www pfqueue-0.5.6]# yum install ncurses-devel Loading "fastestmirror" plugin Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile  * base: mirrors.nfsi.pt  * updates: mirrors.nfsi.pt  * addons: mirrors.nfsi.pt  * extras: mirrors.nfsi.pt Setting up Install Process Parsing package install arguments Resolving Dependencies --> Running transaction check ---> Package ncurses-devel.x86_64 0:5.5-24.20060715 set to be updated ---> Package ncurses-devel.i386 0:5.5-24.20060715 set to be updated --> Finished Dependency Resolution

Dependencies Resolved

=============================================================================  Package                 Arch       Version          Repository        Size ============================================================================= Installing:  ncurses-devel           x86_64     5.5-24.20060715  base              1.7 M  ncurses-devel           i386       5.5-24.20060715  base              1.6 M

Transaction Summary

Install      2 Package(s) Update       0 Package(s) Remove       0 Package(s)

Total download size: 3.3 M

Regards,

Eduardo Silvestre nfsi telecom, lda.

eduardo.silvestre@nfsi.pt Tel. (+351) 21 949 2300 - Fax (+351) 21 949 2301 http://www.nfsi.pt/

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I had same issue. I added exclude=*.i386 *.i686 to yum.conf and that solved the problem.