On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 3:02 AM, Adrian Sevcenco
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> Hi! On a SL system installed with only x86_64 packages i try to install
> a emi middleware component which have also i686 dependencies .. the
> problem is that i see this:
> [root@grid04 yum.repos.d]# yum --disablerepo=xrootd* install db4.i686
> ...snip...
> Error:  Multilib version problems found. This often means that the root
> ...snip...
> Protected multilib versions: db4-4.7.25-17.el6.i686 !=
> db4-4.7.25-18.el6_4.x86_64
>
> the problem is that i cannot uninstall the x86_64 as all the system will
> be uninstalled ...
>
> Any idea about this?

What do you see with:

yum list db4

You disabled some repositories. Did you happen to exclude certain packages?

Akemi