Les Mikesell wrote: > On Wed, 2006-04-26 at 06:53, Karanbir Singh wrote: >>> If it does want the 32-bit version it shouldn't hurt anything >>> to install it with: >>> yum install xorg-x11-libs.i386 >>> I needed that for VMware server recently and posted here about >>> a conflict with fontconfig from the 64-bit version. I think >>> that's a bug but someone responded with a workaround: >> >>> rpm -e --justdb --nodeps fontconfig >> which is very very wrong, and if you really care about this, dont do it. >> find the solution to the problem, rather than just using a hammer to >> break your system even more. >> >> which in the case of the vmware-server, is to remove fontconfig.x86_64 >> and install fontconfig.i386 manually. The rest of your install will work >> then. > > The solution is to not have conflicting packages in the > repositories. How do we arrange that? > :( this will need to be something from upstream... and yes i know its been a major problem for everyone who tries to multilib stuff. one potential issue is a local fix in centos, and push patches to RH. let me work out whats involved. -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219 at icq