On Mon 22. April 2002 02:12, Alan Horkan wrote:
> no arch means no architecture
> and refers to the fact that software has to be made different for
> different chip architectures, namely big endian and little endian,
> IBM Intel AMD PC x86 etc or Apple Motorola PowerPC chip architecture.

So, how we can explain this:

[root@234m abi.1.0]#  rpm -Uvh abiword-fonts-1.0.0-1.noarch.rpm
Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
package abiword-fonts-1.0.0-1 is for a different architecture
[root@234m abi.1.0]#

Andrzej

> Sincerely
> Alan Horkan
>
> > There was a fonts file rpm which I have downloaded but not installed.
> > (abiword-fonts-1.0.0-1.noarch.rpm). What does 'noarch' mean, can anyone
> > tell me? And secondly, is there any advantage to installing this file
> > since I have the usual selection of fonts available to me already?
> >
> > TIA
> >
> > Neil
-----------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word
unsubscribe in the message body.

Reply via email to