Scott Silva wrote: > 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 > > are you sure this wont create any orphans ? -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219 at icq