Gary Gatling wrote: > 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
A slight tweak eliminates the temp file: rpm -qa | grep x86_64 | sed 's...@x86_64@i686@' | xargs yum -y install -- Charles Polisher _______________________________________________ rhelv6-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv6-list
