We ran into another issue this week with Kickstart. We bought a bunch of new 64 bit machines ( AMD 64 bit, to be exact ) and have been developing a Kickstart solution for them. However, we have a bunch of applications that require some 32 bit libraries in order to run. Most Kickstart suggestions were to simply install certain compat groups, however, like the bad sheep of the family, that’s not what we wanted to do. We do a very minimal install on our machines and didn’t want to install a bunch of libraries that we didn’t need. After much searching, we found this simple way of doing it. In the %packages section, simply add .i386 to the end of the package name.
For example:
libgcc.i386
That’s all it takes in order to install a 32-bit version of a library. Hope this helps.
May 24th, 2007 at 12:35 am
Mnay Thanks, this had me stumped for ages, I could not believe there was not a simpler way to complete this.
Cheers
Andy
June 7th, 2007 at 12:29 pm
Andy, glad it helped.
It had us stumped for awhile too!