I understand how to remove them using ' yum remove \*.i?86 '. The link below says that it breaks the installation of the x86_64 packages by removing files which are shared between the architectures, i.e. docs. How do you remove the .i?86 packages without effecting the x86_64 packages? James Matthews wrote: > Frank Cox posted above this line, > ' yum remove \*.i?86 ' > > What I do is put the package name and then the platform. E.g > php-cli.x86_64 > > On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 1:25 PM, Patrick McEvoy > <pmcevoy at silvacapitalmanagement.com > <mailto:pmcevoy at silvacapitalmanagement.com>> wrote: > > I have just found this post regarding the removal of .i?86 > packages on a > x86_64 machine, http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=2590. I assume > that > these issues still exist for CentOS 5.3. Anyone have advice on how to > remove the duplicate packages safely? > > Thanks, > Patrick > > Mathieu Baudier wrote: > > Out of pure curiosity: > > Does anybody know why both i386 and x86_64 are installed by default? > > > > On other x86_64 platforms I rather tend to cherrypick the i386 > > packages and install them on a case by case basis. > > > > On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 06:49, Vnpenguin <vnpenguin at vnoss.org > <mailto:vnpenguin at vnoss.org>> wrote: > > > >> I removed all i?86 on my x86_64 servers. No problem. > >> > >> -- > >> http://vnoss.org > >> _______________________________________________ > >> CentOS mailing list > >> CentOS at centos.org <mailto:CentOS at centos.org> > >> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > >> > > _______________________________________________ > > CentOS mailing list > > CentOS at centos.org <mailto:CentOS at centos.org> > > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > > > > > -- > > Patrick McEvoy > System Administrator > Silva Capital Management, LLC > 625 N. Michigan Ave, Suite 412 > Chicago, IL 60611 > Office: 312-397-0400, Fax: 312-397-0404 > Cell: 773-517-1287 > pmcevoy at silvacapitalmgmt.com <mailto:pmcevoy at silvacapitalmgmt.com> > > > Silva Capital Management, LLC <http://www.silvacapitalmgmt.com/> > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org <mailto:CentOS at centos.org> > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > > > > -- > http://www.goldwatches.com > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- Patrick McEvoy System Administrator Silva Capital Management, LLC 625 N. Michigan Ave, Suite 412 Chicago, IL 60611 Office: 312-397-0400, Fax: 312-397-0404 Cell: 773-517-1287 pmcevoy at silvacapitalmgmt.com Silva Capital Management, LLC <http://www.silvacapitalmgmt.com/>