Hi guys, I took your advice and performed a "yum remove *386" on this box. Also yes I can easily append x86_64 or i386 (depending on the machine) each time I go to install an app. But my question remains is there any way to instruct yum to automatically select the right package architecture through a setting in one of the config files rather than having to specify which architecture you are working with each time. This is just a curiosity and not of course anything at all critical or important. thanks for your help. Tim On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 9:54 AM, Ross Walker <rswwalker at gmail.com> wrote: > On Mar 7, 2011, at 9:41 AM, Tim Dunphy <bluethundr at gmail.com> wrote: > >> On my centos boxes whenever I try to install packages I get a mix of >> packages from the repos that are both i386 and x86_64 in >> archictecture: > > Yum doesn't implicitly know if you want the 64 or 32-bit versions so it selects both. If you only want 64-bit put .x86_64 at the end of the package name. > > The 32-bit versions are there for 32-bit binary application support. > > -Ross > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- GPG me!! gpg --keyserver pool.sks-keyservers.net --recv-keys F186197B