basically, if you have a Pentium Pro, PII or above (including Duron's & Athlon's) then you can load i686 rpms no worries, regardless if the rest of the distro is i586.... in fact it is a good idea to do so... might as well get some small extra for your hard earned CPU... only thing to watch, if you have a K6 (or below), or just a pentium, then get the i586, or build an rpm from the src as detailed in other posts... rgds Frank -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Vincent Danen Sent: Tuesday, 18 September 2001 1:46 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] 686.rpm's On Mon Sep 17, 2001 at 08:13:21AM +0200, Gregor Maier wrote: > >> Hi, I have to ask. > >> I found a program, but is fixed as a 686 rpm and mandrake has the > >> installation of its system as 586 rpm's.. > >> I need to know if there will be any problems if I installed a 686.rpm on a > >> system thats running all 586.rpm's.. > >> > >> Harold > > > > I don't think so... but anyway if you're concerned why not grab the src.rpm > > of the application you want to use and rebuild it in your own system, as it > > is easy and simple to do... > > > > rmp --rebuild file_name.src.rpm and install the resulting rpm > > > But if he's running a 686 based system (PentiumPro, PII, PIII, ...) then will > still get i686.rpm (at least with the standard mandrake compiler flags) rpm --rebuild file_name.src.rpm --target=i586 But if he has a i686 machine, then installing an i686 rpm on Mandrake makes no difference. You can install i386 packages on an i586-default system, or i686 packages on an i386-default system (like RH) provided your processor supports it. Ie. installing a ppc.rpm won't work, but installing a i686.rpm will. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED], OpenPGP key available on www.keyserver.net 1024D/FE6F2AFD 88D8 0D23 8D4B 3407 5BD7 66F9 2043 D0E5 FE6F 2AFD - Danen Consulting Services www.danen.net, www.freezer-burn.org - MandrakeSoft, Inc. Security www.linux-mandrake.com Current Linux kernel 2.4.8-24mdk uptime: 1 hour 29 minutes.
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