what is noarch

[bobbybobbertson]

I'm fairly new to linux administration, and I'm trying to download some rpms for my machine and there are a bunch of different directories that I don't understand. There is i386 and noarch. I believe that the i386 refers to a processor, right? Maybe the noarch refers to no-archetiture, as in it doesn't matter what processor it runs on?

am I close?

 

[Norwich]

Spot on - the binaries are compile with no architecture specific code so should run on any system.