Installed RHEL for 64 bit but also installed 32bit rpm packages

[ady2012]

I have installed RHEL for 64 bit.
After I have checked all rpm packages using rpm -qa.
And I can see same rpm package name for 64 bit and 32 bit on RHEL.
Any suggestion to install RHEL for 64 bit without install rpm packages for 32 bit.

Thanks

 

[mrregan]

Normally Red Hat comes with 2 disks, one for 32 bit and one for 64 bit.

 

[Annihilannic]

It is normal for RHEL 64-bit to install many 32-bit packages, I believe mainly for backward compabitility reasons (some software is not necessarily available in 64-bit versions).

On a fairly typical installation this is the distribution of platform types I see:

$ rpm -qa --qf '%-40{PLATFORM}\n' | sort | uniq -c
      7 i386-redhat-linux
    301 i386-redhat-linux-gnu
      3 i686-redhat-linux-gnu
    103 noarch-redhat-linux-gnu
      2 (none)
     17 x86_64-redhat-linux
      1 x86_64-redhat-linux6E
    874 x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu

Similar to yours?

Annihilannic.

 

[ady2012]

Thanks.