[Yum] Re: Multiarch?

Jos Vos jos at xos.nl
Wed Jul 13 15:12:14 UTC 2005


On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 10:59:12AM -0400, Tom Diehl wrote:

> Ok then, what is the purpose for having 2 versions of the same package 
> installed?? That is the part that does not make sense to me. Is there a doc
> somewhere that explains this??

The reason for having two architectures installed is when you want
to run some 32-bit application that needs the 32-bit libraries.

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