[CentOS] installing centos 7 32 bit i386 to laptop

Thu Jul 28 06:13:48 UTC 2016
Ned Slider <ned at unixmail.co.uk>


On 28/07/16 06:16, John R Pierce wrote:
> On 7/27/2016 9:58 PM, geo.inbox.ignored wrote:
>> $ sudo yum install NetworkManager-wifi
>> [sudo] password for geo:
>> Loaded plugins: aliases, changelog, fastestmirror, ovl, presto, refresh-
>>                : packagekit, security, tmprepo, verify, versionlock
>> Setting up Install Process
>> Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
>>   * base: mirror.steadfast.net
>>   * epel: mirror.steadfast.net
>>   * extras: mirror.steadfast.net
>>   * updates: mirror.steadfast.net
>> extras                                                   | 3.3 kB
>> 00:00
>> updates                                                  | 3.4 kB
>> 00:00
>> updates/primary_db                                       | 1.3 MB
>> 00:01
>> No package NetworkManager-wifi available.
>
> hmmm, that repository has no 32 bit RPMs.
>
> http://mirror.steadfast.net/centos/7/os/
>
> but they do exist here, http://mirror.centos.org/altarch/7/os/ and
> http://mirror.centos.org/altarch/7/updates/
>
> so you might need to tweak your /etc/yum.repos.d files a bit.
>
>

Additionally, most 3rd party repos (e.g, epel above) do not ship 32-bit 
packages for el7 as there is no 32-bit offering of RHEL from Red Hat. So 
not much point configuring them in yum.