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I notice some RPMS are installed twice, how do I handle multilib?

April 26, 2017installed Notice RPMs twice

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I notice some RPMS are installed twice, how do I handle multilib?

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A few things of note here: * rpm and yum both support name-version-release.arch so for installing foo-1.1-1 RPMs, you can explicitly call rpm -ivh foo-1.1-1.i386 foo-1.1-1.x86_64. You can also query and remove with this method. yum will default to the system architecture if given a choice, so to install say 32bit firefox where you have both 32bit and 64bit available in your repositories, you can call ‘yum install firefox.i386’ and it should do the right thing. * At this time, apt is *not* biarch compatible, but I am told this is being addressed. * libtool in Fedora releases is patched to handle multilib systems appropriatelyr. While this patch has been pushed upstream, it may not be in all distributions yet. If you are building an rpm or a tarball you may need to libtoolize, even if the libtool scripts are already there.