On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 7:12 AM, Niki Kovacs <contact at kikinovak.net> wrote: > Hi, > > I just installed CentOS 5.4 on a 64bit-server. It's the first time I > work with this sort of hardware. Doing rpm -qa | sort | less shows that > most of the packages seem to be installed twice: once for i386 > architecture, and then again for x86_64. > > Is this normal? Or did I mess up something during install (thought I > wouldn't know what)? There is a FAQ about it: http://wiki.centos.org/FAQ/General#head-357346ff0bf7c14b0849c3bcce39677aaca528e9 Akemi