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feetyouwell 01-10-2004 12:59 PM
what does "noarch" mean?
 
I have seen lots of the rpm packages saying noarch, what does it mean?

XavierP 01-10-2004 01:02 PM
It means that it is not compiled for a specific pc architecture - noarch as opposed to i386, i486, i586, i686.

In theory, that rpm should run on whatever system you have (as long as it's a pc ;)).

feetyouwell 01-10-2004 01:07 PM
thanx man, that makes sense

XavierP 01-10-2004 03:15 PM
No probs


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