On 20 February 2011 01:10, frank ref <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> I need the gtk2-devel package.
> However, yum is not installing and stops with the following message:
> Test Transaction Errors:
> package pixman-0.18.4-1.el6_0.1.x86_64 (which is newer than
> pixman-0.16.6-1.el6.i686) is already installed

My very quick work-a-round would be to append the line

exclude = *.i?86

to your /etc/yum.conf file, then perform a

yum clean all

command and finally retry the installation.

Basically & quickly (as it's 0134 hours in my local time as I type
this), a 64-bit system will also install 32-bit package for
compatibility reasons. Those of us who desire a "pure" 64-bit system
will, post install:

(1) add that above "exclude" line
(2) execute a "yum remove \*.i\?86" command

I'm sure there are others around who can expand on that. (Akemi --
where are you?)

Alan.