Niki Kovacs 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)? > This is normal and almost everyone (including me) asks about it when they install their first 64-bit system. :) The 32-bit packages are installed for backward-compatibility with any 32-bit programs you may want to run. -- Bowie