I am installing VMWare on CentOS 5.1 (x86 64bit). When I run 'yum install gcc'
it fails with: Error: No Package Matching glibc.i686

Anyone know how to get around this?

Thanks!


[root@devserver6 ~]# yum install gcc
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Setting up Install Process
Setting up repositories
Reading repository metadata in from local files
Parsing package install arguments
Resolving Dependencies
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
---> Package gcc.x86_64 0:4.1.2-14.el5 set to be updated
--> Running transaction check
--> Processing Dependency: glibc-devel >= 2.2.90-12 for package: gcc
--> Processing Dependency: libgomp = 4.1.2-14.el5 for package: gcc
--> Processing Dependency: libgomp.so.1()(64bit) for package: gcc
--> Processing Dependency: binutils >= 2.17.50.0.2-8 for package: gcc
--> Restarting Dependency Resolution with new changes.
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
---> Package binutils.x86_64 0:2.17.50.0.6-5.el5 set to be updated
---> Package glibc-devel.x86_64 0:2.5-18.el5_1.1 set to be updated
---> Package libgomp.x86_64 0:4.1.2-14.el5 set to be updated
--> Running transaction check
--> Processing Dependency: glibc = 2.5-18.el5_1.1 for package: glibc-devel
--> Processing Dependency: glibc-headers for package: glibc-devel
--> Processing Dependency: glibc-headers = 2.5-18.el5_1.1 for package: glibc-devel
--> Restarting Dependency Resolution with new changes.
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
---> Package glibc-headers.x86_64 0:2.5-18.el5_1.1 set to be updated
---> Package glibc.x86_64 0:2.5-18.el5_1.1 set to be updated
--> Running transaction check
--> Processing Dependency: glibc-common = 2.5-18.el5_1.1 for package: glibc
--> Restarting Dependency Resolution with new changes.
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
---> Package glibc-common.x86_64 0:2.5-18.el5_1.1 set to be updated
--> Running transaction check
--> Processing Dependency: glibc-common = 2.5-18 for package: glibc
Error: No Package Matching glibc.i686

Because the 32-bit packages is not part of the 64-bit directory structure so you need to make a CentOS32.repo file. Use your existing /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo file as your guide and make the changes. This is an example for the first entry;

Repeat for the rest and save then when done try again: yum install glibc glibc.i386 --enablerepo=c532*

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Thanks Lenard that did it!

Now I am having trouble mounting a USB hard drive which is NTFS.

I need to mount it to move the VM images onto the CentOS file
system.

Cannot Mount Volume
The volume 'WD Passport2' uses the ntfs file system
which is not supported by your system.

See: http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/NTFSPartitions

You can solve the glibc problem with "yum update glibc"

This is totally the SOLUTION, not need to create any new repo file.
Thanks

Nope I stll get the following:
[root@s15310668 ~]# yum update glibc
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Setting up Update Process
Setting up repositories
Reading repository metadata in from local files
Excluding Packages in global exclude list
Finished
Resolving Dependencies
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
---> Package glibc.x86_64 0:2.5-24.el5_2.2 set to be updated
--> Running transaction check
--> Processing Dependency: glibc-common = 2.5-24.el5_2.2 for package: glibc
--> Restarting Dependency Resolution with new changes.
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
---> Package glibc-common.x86_64 0:2.5-24.el5_2.2 set to be updated
--> Running transaction check
--> Processing Dependency: glibc-common = 2.5-18.el5_1.1 for package: glibc
Error: No Package Matching glibc.i686
[root@s15310668 ~]#

I was getting the same error, ran "yum update" and then I was able to install GCC using "yum install gcc-c++"