Karanbir Singh spake the following on 4/17/2006 1:45 PM: > Benjamin Smith wrote: >> Thanks. >> What you wrote led me to a google search which resulted in this link: >> https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/pipermail/yum/2005-August/007269.html >> >> which had a line to do a yum exclude which allowed me to get it to >> fly. It's now going thru 171 packages.... w00T... >> > > wait! > > dont just add that line in there, first make sure you yum erase all your > 32bit apps and rpm's ( yum erase *.i386 *.i586 *.i686 ), otherwise you > are going to leave behind a large number of orphaned rpm's. > > if you need those 32bit apps, consider just excluding the > fontconfig.i386 rpm. its a problem known since early 4.0 release days :( > > Or do rpm -e --justdb --nodeps fontconfig -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!!