On Wed, 30 Nov 2005, John Rowe wrote:

> I have three x86_64 machines all running SL4.1. On two of them rpm -q
> gives me the architecture, on the other it doesn't:
>
> goodhost# rpm -q xorg-x11-libs
> xorg-x11-libs-6.8.2-1.EL.13.16.x86_64
> xorg-x11-libs-6.8.2-1.EL.13.16.i386
>
> badhost#  rpm -q xorg-x11-libs
> xorg-x11-libs-6.8.2-1.EL.13.16
> xorg-x11-libs-6.8.2-1.EL.13.16
>
> (rpm -qa does the same.)
>
> This is an immense pain because, as you can see above, I have a number
> of library packages in both i386 and x86_64 formats and I need a
> reliable way of knowing what is installed on my system.
>
> Any idea how I can persuade rpm to behave nicely? Both are running RPM
> version 4.3.3.

Install the SL_rpm_show_arch tweek package on badhost as well.

 	Stephan

>
> Thanks
>
> John
>

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