Am 21.07.2013 14:02, schrieb Michael Schwendt:
On Sun, 21 Jul 2013 10:59:21 +0100, Frank Murphy wrote:
On Sun, 21 Jul 2013 10:13:03 +0200 lee wrote:
BTW, why are there so many i686 packages installed:
I have noticed Fedora x86_64 tends to do that as long as I've been using Fedora. what I've resorted to in /etc/yum.conf is: exclude=*i386* *i486* *i586* *i686
It will complain if try you remove them, but it can be done slowly\carefully. using rpm -e --nodeps where appropriate (Use with Caution)
That is wrong advice
and a very dangerous
*never* type "--nodeps" at all as long you are not 100% sure what you are doing at the moment
You don't need --nodeps to remove the 32-bit packages
and not for anything else if you are not firm how to recover your system if there was a cross-dependency killing nss or similar mandatory libraries resulting in rpm, yum, sshd are dead and you are done until restore the library files per hand
been there with "rpm -e --nodeps nss-softokn" years ago to solve a different dependency problem
You could do things similar to rpm -qa|grep .i*86$|xargs rpm -e
ouch - why not "yum remove *.i686" instead bypass yum? been there, done that often before "exclude=*.i686"