[Yum] Transaction Check Error

[seth vidal]

On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 15:28 -0400, David P Olshefski wrote:
> 
> I am trying ti use yum to install tcpdump onto my FC6 system (which is
> actually a jailtime VM, executing on xen) 
> 
> > yum install tcpdump 
> 
> ... 
> 
> the final response is: 
> 
> Transaction Check Error:        package tcpdump-39.4-11.fc6 is
> intended for a x86_64 architecture 
> package glibc-common-2.5-18.fc6 is intended for a x86_64 architecture 
> package glibc-2.5-18.fc6 is intended for a x86_64 architecture 
> 
> but... 
> 
> > uname -a 
> 
> Linux domU1 2.6.18.8-xen #2 SMP Fri Mar 21 21:17:37  EDT  2008  x86_64
> x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux 
> 
> Any suggestions on how to fix this?   
> 
> According to the FAQ, yum should download both the 32-bit and 64-bit
> versions of tcpdump, but it doesn't seem to do that... 
> 

please send the output of these two commands:

cat /etc/rpm/platform

rpm -q rpm yum python rpm-python


thanks,
-sv