On Mon, 2005-08-15 at 20:09 +0200, Lukasz Trabinski wrote:
Hello
I have fresh FC4 instalation on x86_64 machine. I would like to
erase some packages, but when I try do:
oceanic:~# rpm -e zlib
error: "zlib" specifies multiple packages
ok, we have packages for both arch:
oceanic:~# rpm -q --queryformat "%{ARCH}\n" zlib
i386
x86_64
Those are not duplicates - RPM supports the installation of side-by-side
'multilib' packages, for backward compatibility with 32-bit programs.
Important things such as OpenOffice and HelixPlayer are still 32-bit
only, and some people choose to run 32-bit browsers for better plugin
supports.
To uninstall the 32-bit zlib, for example, you can just rpm -e
zlib.i386 ..
Hope that helps, and by the way, this is probably more appropriate on
fedora-list.
- Michel