On Jan 7, 2012, at 15:00 , Steven Haigh wrote:

> I'm hoping someone will either have a workaround or a suggestion for me.
> 
> I'm trying to get arcconf and the firmware updater for an IBM SAS RAID adapter. Sadly it seems the binaries that IBM supply are 32bit only and require /lib/ld-linux.so.2
> 
> So, I figure just to try 'yum install glibc.i686' - however that doesn't go according to plan:
> 
> # yum install glibc.i686
> Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
> Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
> * sl6x: mirror.aarnet.edu.au
> * sl6x-security: mirror.aarnet.edu.au
> Setting up Install Process
> Resolving Dependencies
> --> Running transaction check
> ---> Package glibc.i686 0:2.12-1.47.el6 will be installed
> --> Processing Dependency: libfreebl3.so for package: glibc-2.12-1.47.el6.i686
> --> Processing Dependency: libfreebl3.so(NSSRAWHASH_3.12.3) for package: glibc-2.12-1.47.el6.i686
> --> Running transaction check
> ---> Package nss-softokn-freebl.i686 0:3.12.9-3.el6 will be installed
> --> Finished Dependency Resolution
> Error: Protected multilib versions: nss-softokn-freebl-3.12.9-3.el6.i686 != nss-softokn-freebl-3.12.9-11.el6.x86_64
> You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
> You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest
> 
> Am I attempting to do this the wrong way or is something else playing up here?

You're running 6.2 beta? Try using that repo instead of 6x, which points to 6.1.

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