Jan Kundrát wrote:
> Hi list,
> I have a 64-bit SL(C)4 system and would like to install 32-bit Python.
> 64bit repositories of my OS are protected. When I ask yum to install
> python.i386, its debug tells me that it will ignore python from the
> 32bit repo as "python" is already present in the 64bit slc4 repo.
> 
> Is there any way I can get python.i386 installed and automatically
> updated when it gets bumped in the 32bit repo?
> 
> Would it be safe to hack the protectbase.py to exclude only packages for
> same arch?
> 
> Cheers,
> -jkt

Well, you can always just force it on by hand using rpm.  But then, the odd are 
that your yum, and many other python based programs are going to break.
I think in the end, you would have to repackage python so that you have 
/bin/python32

Just out of curiousity, why do you need 32 bit python on a 64 bit machine?

Troy

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