Hello,
I was able to install the 32 bit packages on a RHEL 6 64 bit machine post
install without too much typing like this.
rpm -qa | grep x86_64 | sed 's...@x86_64@i686@' > packagelist
for i in `cat packagelist`;do yum -y install $i;done
"yum install *.i?86" didn't work when I tried it (there was a conflict
and it also seemed like it was trying to install everything under the
sun?) and changing multilib_policy to "all" didn't seem to automagically
get the packages when I did a yum update. Maybe I was doing something
wrong. So maybe this is the simplest way without making a kickstart and
adding all the packages into that. (like foo.i686)
If anyone knows an easier/better way I'd like to hear about it. I'm going
to need the 32 bit libraries for certain apps (like flash) and some of the
code some students compiled here when we were still 32 bit only.
Cheers,
Gary Gatling | ITECS Systems
On Tue, 16 Nov 2010, Bill Nottingham wrote:
[email protected] ([email protected]) said:
I have installed a fresh system with "Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Server release 6.0 (Santiago)" but in the default installation
of a Software Development Workstation the 32-bit runtime libraries
are missing
The command yum list *.i?86 gave me a list of the available
packages. But its a little bit tedious to install each package
separately.
I would prefer a 'yum groupinstall' to get all needed libraries at once.
I would suggest checking to see if `yum install *.i?86` does what you want.
Also, check 'man yum.conf', search for 'multilib_policy':
multilib_policy Can be set to 'all' or 'best'. All means install all possible
arches for any package you want to install. Therefore yum install foo will
install foo.i386 and foo.x86_64 on x86_64, if it is available. Best means
install the best arch for this platform, only.
The default is 'best'; you can set it to 'all'. (Note that frobbing of this
config is not supported in anaconda itself, but you can certainly specify
<foo>.i686 in kickstart.)
Bill
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