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. Some questions are answered here: http://www.goitworld.com/rhelcentos-x86_64-and-i386-packages-mess/
but I have these remaining: - can I tell via kickstart to just install the 64bit packages? - is it safe to rpm -e remove all i386 packages? (assuming I'm not going to install any i386 packages later)
Thanks.
Kai
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.
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 9:07 AM, Kai Schaetzl maillists@conactive.com 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.
The FAQ is here:
http://wiki.centos.org/FAQ/General#head-357346ff0bf7c14b0849c3bcce39677aaca5...
Akemi
Thank you both for the replies. In the meantime I've also found info on removing that at kickstart time: http://blog.vodkamelone.de/archives/151- Red-Hat-Enterprise-LinuxCentOS-5-minimal-installation.html
Kai
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