Re: [CentOS] cannot install glibc.i686 on x86_64

2012-11-29 Thread Robert Heller
At Fri, 23 Nov 2012 02:05:47 +0100 CentOS mailing list wrote: > > I cannot install glibc.i686 on a x86_64 system because I get > > Error: Missing Dependency: glibc-common = 2.5-81 is needed by package > glibc-2.5-81.i686 (base) > > glibc-common.x86_64 is installed, but it's apparently looki

Re: [CentOS] cannot install glibc.i686 on x86_64

2012-11-23 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Johnny Hughes wrote on Fri, 23 Nov 2012 09:16:41 -0600: > multilib_policy=best Perfect, thanks! I've never heard of this option before. I've been actively following the list during the first major CentOS 5 releases and I should have noticed it :-) I added it immediately to some systems now. I

Re: [CentOS] cannot install glibc.i686 on x86_64

2012-11-23 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 11/23/2012 06:46 AM, Kai Schaetzl wrote: > Johnny Hughes wrote on Thu, 22 Nov 2012 20:11:17 -0600: > > Thank you both for the replies. > This was my own mistake combined with some depsolving weirdness of yum. > > I have 386 and 686 excluded from the repo's because of the greediness to > install

Re: [CentOS] cannot install glibc.i686 on x86_64

2012-11-23 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Johnny Hughes wrote on Thu, 22 Nov 2012 20:11:17 -0600: Thank you both for the replies. This was my own mistake combined with some depsolving weirdness of yum. I have 386 and 686 excluded from the repo's because of the greediness to install all versions of a package. At least in earlier versions

Re: [CentOS] cannot install glibc.i686 on x86_64

2012-11-22 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 11/22/2012 07:05 PM, Kai Schaetzl wrote: > I cannot install glibc.i686 on a x86_64 system because I get > > Error: Missing Dependency: glibc-common = 2.5-81 is needed by package > glibc-2.5-81.i686 (base) > > glibc-common.x86_64 is installed, but it's apparently looking for i686. > There's ind

Re: [CentOS] cannot install glibc.i686 on x86_64

2012-11-22 Thread Marcin Lage
I'm not sure, glibc-common*.i686 is on the [updates] section of the /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo. Maybe priorities between the repos [base] and updates or [updates] "ENABLED=0" Take a look in - mirror.centos.org/centos/5/updates/x86_64/RPMS/ Your system version is CentOS 5 ? I'm sorry, my e

[CentOS] cannot install glibc.i686 on x86_64

2012-11-22 Thread Kai Schaetzl
I cannot install glibc.i686 on a x86_64 system because I get Error: Missing Dependency: glibc-common = 2.5-81 is needed by package glibc-2.5-81.i686 (base) glibc-common.x86_64 is installed, but it's apparently looking for i686. There's indeed no glibc-common for i686. There's also glibc.i386 an