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. You don't need --nodeps to remove the 32-bit packages. You could do things similar to
rpm -qa|grep .i*86$|xargs rpm -e
to remove all of them at once without introducing broken dependencies.
# rpm -qa |grep -v noarch|grep -v _64|grep -v pubkey #