Monday, April 1, 2019

yum install - same rpm of different architectures (32-bit and 64-bit) in same development environment


Requirement:
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   We have one development environment ( or docker container used for development )
    For development  we need 64-bit package installation of certain rpm
    Later for some other requirements we need the 32-bit package of the same rpm to be installed in the same environment ( or docker container)

Problem :
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      Since there was already an existing package of 64-bit version was already available, installation of the 32-bit version returned the following error during the "yum install"
    
     for example while installing the libgcc of 32 version, we got the following error message

Error:  Multilib version problems found. This often means that the root
       cause is something else and multilib version checking is just
       pointing out that there is a problem. Eg.:

         1. You have an upgrade for libgcc which is missing some
            dependency that another package requires. Yum is trying to
            solve this by installing an older version of libgcc of the
            different architecture. If you exclude the bad architecture
            yum will tell you what the root cause is (which package
            requires what). You can try redoing the upgrade with
            --exclude libgcc.otherarch ... this should give you an error
            message showing the root cause of the problem.

         2. You have multiple architectures of libgcc installed, but
            yum can only see an upgrade for one of those arcitectures.
            If you don't want/need both architectures anymore then you
            can remove the one with the missing update and everything
            will work.

         3. You have duplicate versions of libgcc installed already.
            You can use "yum check" to get yum show these errors.

       ...you can also use --setopt=protected_multilib=false to remove
       this checking, however this is almost never the correct thing to
       do as something else is very likely to go wrong (often causing
       much more problems).

       Protected multilib versions: libgcc-4.4.7-4.el6.i686 != libgcc-4.4.7-3.el6.x86_64
 You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
 You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles –nodigest
 
 
Solution :
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      As highlighted in the above error, since the both versions are different we are getting this error message
     The solution that worked is, by installing the 64-bit and 32-bit versions together at the same timeas mentioned below:
        yum install -y libgcc.x86_64 libgcc.i686 
 
 
   

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