Johnny Hughes wrote: > There are new RPMS released for nx and freenx in the CentOS-4 and > CentOS-5 Extras repository. > > I normally do not announce that here, as those can easily be obtained on > a normal "yum upgrade/update", however in this case there are special > actions required *_IF_* you have the x86_64 architecture for either > CentOS-4 or CentOS-5 with the current versions of nx and freenx installed. > > The freenx and nx in the x86_64 tree were i386 versions prior to this > release because the nomachine code would not compile on x86_64. This > release fixes that and the new versions are x86_64 RPMS and no longer > i386. This means that YUM will not update the currently installed i386 > RPMS that are installed on x86_64 machines. > > ============= > *_ATTENTION_* > ============= > > If you are running nx and freenx on x86_64, to get these upgraded you > *_MUST_*: > > 1. Manually download the x86_64 RPMS from these location: > > CentOS-5: > <http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/extras/x86_64/RPMS/freenx-0.7.1-1.el5.centos.x86_64.rpm> > <http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/extras/x86_64/RPMS/nx-3.0.0-4.el5.centos.x86_64.rpm> > > CentOS-4: > <http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/extras/x86_64/RPMS/freenx-0.7.1-1.el4.centos.x86_64.rpm> > <http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/extras/x86_64/RPMS/nx-3.0.0-4.el4.centos.x86_64.rpm> *_FORGOT A STEP_* 1a. Remove the current nx and freenx with this command: rpm -e nx freenx > > 2. Manually install these two RPMS with this command (as root from > within the directory where you downloaded them): > > rpm -Uvh freenx-0.7.1-1.el5.centos.x86_64.rpm > nx-3.0.0-4.el5.centos.x86_64.rpm > > (that command is all one line if it wraps on your e-mail) > > ============= > > I apologize for the manual update requirement, however yum will not > update i386 packages with x86_64 ones. > > Again ... this is *_ONLY_* required if you have the prior released i386 > versions of nx and freenx installed on the X86_64 arch of either > CentOS-4.x or CentOS-5.x. > > If you are using the i386 architecture of CentOS-4.x or CentOS-5.x then > you can just upgrade via yum normally. > > Thanks, > Johnny Hughes > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 252 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20071021/42609ac2/attachment-0005.sig>