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)?
Niki
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 7:12 AM, Niki Kovacs contact@kikinovak.net 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)?
There is a FAQ about it:
http://wiki.centos.org/FAQ/General#head-357346ff0bf7c14b0849c3bcce39677aaca5...
Akemi
Akemi Yagi a écrit :
There is a FAQ about it:
http://wiki.centos.org/FAQ/General#head-357346ff0bf7c14b0849c3bcce39677aaca5...
Thanks. That did the trick.
Niki
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)?
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Hi
I think this is OK. Some programs (32bit ones) expects to find 32bit libraries, so just to be on the safe side (and a little bit lazy),and if I have the options, I install for both architectures.
Regards
mg.
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.
Mathieu Baudier wrote:
The 32-bit packages are installed for backward-compatibility with any 32-bit programs you may want to run.
Regarding security, is it less safe to have these *.i386 packages installed? (esp. on a server) (according to the principle that "less is always more secure")
Hi
I'm not sure if it's that simple. Although this seems to be a good general principle, it will depend how expose it's the system, or if you (or the sysadmin) do the updates, etc.
Regards
mg.
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