[Beowulf] yum

Orion Poplawski orion at cora.nwra.com
Fri Feb 15 13:23:09 PST 2008


Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 at 10:52am, Joe Landman wrote
> 
>> Mark Hahn wrote:
>>>> whats everyones take on centos as a cluster os.
>>>
>>> works fine for me, but I also don't think distros are very important.
>>> the critical things are:
>>>
>>>     - must have a decent package system.  yum is; I'm not familiar 
>>> enough
>>>     with urpmi or apt to know them.  I think both provide appropriate
>>>     management of dependencies.
>>
>> Yum is good, so is apt.  I still have a problem with yum wanting to 
>> install i386 binaries as well as the x86_64 ones.  Haven't learned how 
>> to stop that yet (probably simple too).
> 
> It is:
> yum install gsl.x86_64
> 

Also try:

yum install yum-basearchonly


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