On Saturday 01 October 2005 00:05, jfweber@bellsouth.net wrote:
Reading the Admin. book I see where it says don't use both 32 bit pkgs. and the ones intended for 64bit procs noted by not haveing foo32 in title. However, When I try to mark those choices , where there are choices, as do not install it marks them anyway. How do I know what I need , precisely to get the box up and running? ( Or do I mark the 32 bit files as "taboo" ? )
Most confusing ...
The ones you see in YaST are safe. The admonishion to not use 32 bit packages doesn't mean that you shouldn't use the ones tagged -32bit, it means you shouldn't use the ones called .i586.rpm, but you don't see those in YaST, so you're quite safe. The packages called -32bit are there for compatibility, so you can run 32 bit packages on your 64 bit system, but they won't screw anything up for your normal everyday 64 bit experience