On Tuesday 18 April 2006 04:23, Rex Dieter wrote: > Scott Silva wrote: > > Karanbir Singh spake the following on 4/17/2006 1:45 PM: > > >> 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 > > Eek. IMO, bad advice. You'll leave orphaned(unowned) files behind. ...and I don't want to do that, right? I put in lines like mentioned below in /etc/yum.conf to stop installing 32-bit packages, and finally got KDE to install, but now I'm running into the exact same issues trying to install OpenOffice.org. What's recommended practice for getting this to install on a (primarily) 64-bit athlon/64 system? It's pretty much required since this will be a workstation... When I try to install OpenOffice, I get complaints (again) about openssl, fontconfig, and now libIDL: > Transaction Check Error: package libIDL-0.8.4-1.centos4 (which is newer > than libIDL-0.8.4-1) is already installed in /etc/yum.conf, I've tried the following: exclude=*fontconfig.x86_64 openssl.x86_64 libIDL.x86_64 which gives these errors ################################# Transaction Check Error: package libIDL-0.8.4-1.centos4 (which is newer than libIDL-0.8.4-1) is already installed file /usr/share/man/man5/fonts-conf.5.gz from install of fontconfig-2.2.3-7 conflicts with file from package fontconfig-2.2.3-7 file /usr/share/man/man1/asn1parse.1ssl.gz from install of openssl-0.9.7a-43.8 conflicts with file from package openssl-0.9.7a-43.8 file /usr/share/man/man1/nseq.1ssl.gz from install of openssl-0.9.7a-43.8 conflicts with file from package openssl-0.9.7a-43.8 file /usr/share/man/man1/s_client.1ssl.gz from install of openssl-0.9.7a-43.8 conflicts with file from package openssl-0.9.7a-43.8 file /usr/share/man/man1/s_server.1ssl.gz from install of openssl-0.9.7a-43.8 conflicts with file from package openssl-0.9.7a-43.8 file /usr/share/man/man1/sslpasswd.1ssl.gz from install of openssl-0.9.7a-43.8 conflicts with file from package openssl-0.9.7a-43.8 as well as exclude=*fontconfig.i386 openssl.i686 libIDL.i386 which then gives these: ################################# Error: Missing Dependency: libfontconfig.so.1 is needed by package gtk2 Error: Missing Dependency: libfontconfig.so.1 is needed by package xorg-x11-libs Error: Missing Dependency: libcrypto.so.4 is needed by package gnome-vfs2 Error: Missing Dependency: libssl.so.4 is needed by package gnome-vfs2 Error: Missing Dependency: libIDL-2.so.0 is needed by package ORBit2 Error: Missing Dependency: libfontconfig.so.1 is needed by package pango Error: Missing Dependency: libcrypto.so.4 is needed by package openldap Error: Missing Dependency: libssl.so.4 is needed by package openldap Error: Missing Dependency: libcrypto.so.4 is needed by package cyrus-sasl // Shrug // Any idea where to go from here? I'm tempted at this point to punt on X86_64 for workstation use and just use 32 bit. It does not seem not all that usable when basic package installation fails like this. (Does %upstream-provider% actually consider this "release quality"?) -Ben -- "The best way to predict the future is to invent it." - XEROX PARC slogan, circa 1978