On Fri, 2007-01-12 at 07:02 +0100, Joachim Backes wrote: > Kevan Benson wrote: > > On Thursday 11 January 2007 02:20, Joachim Backes wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I installed centos-4.4 on x86_64, and I wanted to install nx and freenx > >> from the centos extras. But > >> > >> yum list available '*nx* > >> > >> gives me only > >>yum list available '*nx*' > >> Setting up repositories > >>Reading repository metadata in from local files > >>Available Packages > >>lynx.x86_64 2.8.5-18.2 > >> base > >> > >> Question: How, by using yum, can I install i386-packages or noarch-packages > >> on a x86_64 centos? Any help appreciated. > > > > The exact same way you install any other package. If i386 or noarch packages > > are available, they will be listed. In this case, none matched your search, > > the most likely cause is that you don't have the extras repository enabled. > > > > This is why doing a quick google search or list archive search is always > > suggested, as this question (the nx portion) was answered for someone else by > > Karanbir less than two hours before you posted this. > > I did it (i'm not a LINUX newcomer). See below!!! ;-) > > > > > See http://wiki.centos.org/FreeNX (Karanbir's suggestion). > > > > Hi Kevan, I do not agree with you. I did a fresh CentOS install. > Please have a look at > > http://wiki.centos.org/Repositories > > On this page you will find: > > -------------------------------------- snip --------------------------------------------------- > CentOS Extras - This repository is for items that provide additional functionality to CentOS > without breaking upstream compatibility or updating base components. The CentOS development team > has tested every item in this repository, and they build and work under CentOS-4. They have not > been tested by the upstream provider, and are not available in the upstream products. This > repository is shipped with CentOS, and is enabled by default. > -------------------------------------- snip ---------------------------------------------------- > > The last line says: then CentOS extras repository is enabled by default. The NX items are not in x86_64 repo ... as many i386 items are not. You can download them and install them by hand or use the ones from the x86_64 testing repo (which will be moved into both i386 and x86_64 extras after a little more testing). The code from nomachine.org does not compile on x86_64, so you will need i386 packages (like glibc, etc.) to install NX on x86_64. The easiest way ... download the nx and freenx RPMS from here and put them in a directory on your Machine by themselves: http://dev.centos.org/centos/4/testing/i386/RPMS/freenx-0.5.0-12.el4.centos.i386.rpm http://dev.centos.org/centos/4/testing/i386/RPMS/nx-2.1.0-4.el4.centos.i386.rpm install them with the command: yum localinstall freenx-0.5.0-12.el4.centos.i386.rpm nx-2.1.0-4.el4.centos.i386.rpm (all one line) Thanks, Johnny Hughes -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20070112/a92ff1f4/attachment-0004.sig>