Duplicate packages

[jewelion]

Just been doing a "yum update".

I noticed a few things like:
gpm ppc64 1.20.1-80.fc6 updates 210 k
gpm ppc 1.20.1-80.fc6 updates 210 k

Now, I'm using a dual G5 Mac - do I need both sets of packages?
Should I remove the plain ppc ones?

TIA

[codergeek42]

Now you feel the pain of multilib.

Basically the 64-bit install actually installs 32-bit versions of most of the packages so that 32-bit and 64-bit apps will both work.

If you want to use only 64-bit PPC stuff (though I don't know what, if any, functionality will be lost), you should remove all of the '*.ppc' packages. You can do this as root from your favorite terminal: First run "su -" to become the root user (administrator of the machine), then you can use yum's globbing to achieve the removal:

# yum remove '*.ppc'

I highly recommend that you go through the list of removed packages though, just to be sure that no 64-bit (ppc64) packages are slated to be removed.

Afterward, if you only want the ppc64 ones in the future, you can add an exclude line to your /etc/yum.conf configuration file:

exclude=*.ppc

For what it's worth, I've done this to have a "pure" 64-bit install on my Core 2 Duo machine at home (x86-64) and have yet to notice any problems arising therefrom.