Hi,
We are seeing this problem more and more.
The problem stems from when you did the install, you probrubly picked 
the sl-fastbugs repo during the install.
This means that you got all the security and fastbug updates during the 
install, which is good, in a way.
The real problem is that sl-fastbugs isn't turned on by default.  So you 
have all these packages that were updated during the install, but now 
when yum looks at the enabled repositories, it only see's packages that 
are older than you have installed.

Short term solution
   yum --enablerepo=sl-fastbugs install libSM.i686

Longer term solution
   Edit /etc/yum.repos.d/sl-updates.repo and edit sl-fastbugs and change
"enable=0" to "enable=1"

Longer term solution
   This is a problem we need to address before SL 6.1.  I have some 
ideas, but wouldn't mind suggestions.

Troy

On 05/05/2011 09:33 PM, Emilio Xavier Esposito wrote:
> Hi Thomas
> Thank you for the suggestion.  Attempting to install the libSM.i686
> library via yum returns:
>
> Transaction Check Error:
>    package libuuid-2.17.2-6.el6_0.1.x86_64 (which is newer than
> libuuid-2.17.2-6.el6.i686) is already installed
>
> I think something might be really off regarding the workstation as it
> cannot find numpy even though it is installed (according to yum).
>
> Emilio
>
> On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 4:43 PM, tom P<[log in to unmask]>  wrote:
>> Am 05.05.2011 20:58, schrieb Emilio Xavier Esposito:
>>>
>>> Hi
>>> I recently did a fresh install of SL6 x86_64 (formerly running SL5.3
>>> x86_64) and realized that the 32 bit libraries were not installed. SL6
>>> is up-to-date and I have installed the NVIDIA drivers from NVIDIA.
>>>
>>> One application returns the following when trying to run the gui
>>> version but the command line version works as expected.
>>> libSM.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
>>>
>>> I have looked in the "Add/Remove Software" application for the "32 bit
>>> libraries" package but could not find them.  I have also tried to
>>> install the 32 bit (i686) version of the libraries using rpm.  The rpm
>>> command and resulting error are:
>>>
>>> [root@SL6box ~]# rpm -i
>>>
>>> ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6x/x86_64/os/Packages/libSM-1.1.0-7.1.el6.i686.rpm
>>> error: Failed dependencies:
>>>         libuuid.so.1 is needed by libSM-1.1.0-7.1.el6.i686
>>>         libuuid.so.1(UUID_1.0) is needed by libSM-1.1.0-7.1.el6.i686
>>> [root@SL6box ~]# rpm -i
>>>
>>> ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6x/x86_64/os/Packages/libuuid-2.17.2-6.el6.i686.rpm
>>>         package libuuid-2.17.2-6.el6_0.1.x86_64 (which is newer than
>>> libuuid-2.17.2-6.el6.i686) is already installed
>>>
>>> I have also tried to include the i686 repo under yum but have received
>>> the same results.
>>>
>>> Is there another way of installing the 32 bit libraries?  As the
>>> missing libraries are most likely graphics related, is there a subset
>>> of libraries I should install?  Or should I install SL 5.5 or Fedora?
>>>
>>> Thank you
>>> Emilio
>>
>> Have you tried installing the package directly via yum: 'yum install
>> libSM.i686'. Worked here on a 64bit SL6 system without fiddling with the
>> repos. We rely heavily on 32bit libs and I usually don't need to grab them
>> manually.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Thomas
>>


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