This is pretty much the most useful thread I've ever been a part of on the CentOS mailing list!! Thanks a ton to everyone who helped!! Also the senior SA I work with gave me this little gem today: yum -y remove $(yum list installed | awk '{print $1}'| egrep -v "(x86_64|noarch)") But of course make SURE you uname -a and make sure the arch is right before you do because of the -y flag or of course just remove it if that makes you more comfortable! Best! Tim On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 2:23 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel at gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 12:05 PM, Akemi Yagi <amyagi at gmail.com> wrote: >> On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 8:54 AM, Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org> wrote: >> >>> I would also do this: >>> >>> yum reinstall \* >>> >>> The reason being that sometimes the /usr/share/ items (shared between >>> BOTH packages) get removed when removing multi arch RPMS. >> >> The above lines added to the FAQ: >> >> http://wiki.centos.org/FAQ/General?action=show#head-357346ff0bf7c14b0849c3bcce39677aaca528e9 > > Take a look at http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Migration_Planning_Guide/ch09s05.html. > > The better solution, at least for CentOS 5, is to add this to /etc/yum.conf > > # Disable auto-installation of i386 and x86_64 > #multilib_policy=all > multilib_policy=best > _______________________________________________ > 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