Tru Huynh wrote: > On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 10:11:34AM -0500, Matt Hyclak wrote: >> On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 09:53:53AM -0500, Ugo Bellavance enlightened us: >>> Ralph Angenendt wrote: >>>> Ugo Bellavance wrote: >>>>> That is what I thought, but how do I instlal a x86 package on an x64? >>>> yum install glibc.i686? >>> It looked obvious for you, but where is this documented? >>> >> How about the yum man page. See the section under MISC called "specifying >> package names". > > He's on CentOS-3 the man page for yum-2.0 does not have that section. > It's only on the CentOS-4 with yum-2.4. > > Maybe I should add it to yum-2.0.x in a next version? > <quote> > MISC > Specifying package names > A package can be referred to for install,update,list,remove etc > with any of the following: > > name > name.arch > name-ver > name-ver-rel > name-ver-rel.arch > name-epoch:ver-rel.arch > epoch:name-ver-rel.arch > > For example: yum remove kernel-2.4.1-10.i686 > </quote> That would have helped :). but how is arch defined? x86, i386, i686, how does one know? Ugo