I asked myself that same question, and when I reviewed my notes on the install I had some packages that would only work with perl.i386 which required me to install it. Unfortunately, I did not document what those packages were, and can not remember which ones required .i386 to test them. 5.0 through 5.3 allowed the install of both perls, but 5.4 does not. - Greg -----Original Message----- From: Vnpenguin <vnpenguin at vnoss.org> Reply-To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> Subject: Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.4 .x86_64 and perl.i386 Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2009 18:23:23 +0100 Why need perl-5.8.8-18.el5_3.1.i386 on x86_64 box ? On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 16:02, Gregory P. Ennis <PoMec at pomec.net> wrote: > To All, > > Thanks to the CentOS guys for 5.4; sure appreciate your work. > > I have one question. I had to remove perl-5.8.8-18.el5_3.1.i386 on two > x86_64 machines in order to get perl.x86_64 4:5.8.8-27.el5 to update. > > Does this represent a change from 5.3 to 5.4 and should I be concerned > about the loss of perl-5.8.8-18.el5_3.1.i386. So far I have not found > anything broken. > > Greg Ennis > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >