On 20 February 2011 20:16, frank ref <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Dear Alan,
> thanks again for your help again. I have solved the problem, in not the
> most intelligent way- but it worked. I have re-installed SL, and with the
> first login I installed gtk2-devel package without problems. Than I did the
> upgrade and than added other repositories (EPEL).
> It was not so much work as I haven't installed much on top of a minimal
> desktop install.
> Everything worked. I was able to compile gnumeric from the source without
> problems (strange that it is not included).
> Frank

Hi Frank,

I'm pleased to read that you have resolved your issue. Please don't
regard that problem as indicative of Scientific Linux. It was (as far
as I can see) a result of the Upstream Vendor (Red Hat) releasing
32-bit packages with the 64-bit architecture. Hopefully you will not
get bitten that way again.

If at any time you should ever run into mixed-arch problems the rpm
query line, that I showed you in my previous message, will be useful
to recall.

Regards,
Alan.