[CentOS] centos 64 bit

B.J. McClure keepertoad at bellsouth.net
Wed Jul 13 16:16:44 UTC 2011


On Wed, 2011-07-13 at 10:02 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
> On 7/13/2011 9:54 AM, Always Learning wrote:
> >
> >
> >> (2011/07/13 12:07), Edo wrote:
> >
> >>> .... “exclude=*.i?86” in your /etc/yum.conf
> >
> > Like many, I dislike both i386 and x64 packages being installed on my
> > x64 machines.
> >
> > However, is there a potential danger than in installing only x64
> > packages, one of the required files might be available only in i386
> > format and thus detrimentally excluded ?
> >
> > Some illuminating clarity is welcome.
> 
> Note that some 3rd party binaries programs may expect/require 32 bit 
> libs to be present - vmware server, for example.
> 
And Skype.

B.J.

CentOS Linux release 6.0 (Final)




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