Pacman with 32 bit packages?

A chroot seems like an awful waste of space, especially since I would only need it for ZSNES, basically. I don't mind installing 32 bit libs, the "cleanliness" argument nonwithstanding. So I'd like to be able to just "sudo pacman -Sy zsnes", and have pacman just install every 32 bit library that 32 bit zsnes happens to need. But zsnes, and a few other programs with no 64 bit version (opera and wine and a few others I can think of) simply don't show up in the listing. Is there a way to make them do so?

Eschatokyrios wrote:A chroot seems like an awful waste of space, especially since I would only need it for ZSNES, basically. I don't mind installing 32 bit libs, the "cleanliness" argument nonwithstanding. So I'd like to be able to just "sudo pacman -Sy zsnes", and have pacman just install every 32 bit library that 32 bit zsnes happens to need. But zsnes, and a few other programs with no 64 bit version (opera and wine and a few others I can think of) simply don't show up in the listing. Is there a way to make them do so?
No, there's not. Arch doesn't have an official mutli-lib setup. It makes things very complicated.

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[SOLVED] Pacman trying to install 64-bit packages on 32-bit system

I was upgrading my Arch Linux i686 install, and I got the following error:
error: The mirror 'http://mirror.rit.edu/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch' contains the $arch variable, but no Architecture is defined.
I added Architecture = i686 to /etc/pacman.conf under [options], and when I run pacman -Syu, I get these errors:
error: failed to prepare transaction (package architecture is not valid)
:: package clucene-2.3.3.4-2-x86_64 does not have a valid architecture
:: package filezilla-3.5.3-1-x86_64 does not have a valid architecture
:: package lshw-B.02.16-1-x86_64 does not have a valid architecture
:: package yajl-2.0.4-1-x86_64 does not have a valid architecture
Why is pacman trying to install x86_64 packages on my i686 system?
Last edited by nticompass (2012-01-13 03:24:43)

Got errors
:: Retrieving packages from community...
error: failed retrieving file 'virtualbox-modules-4.1.8-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz' from mirrors.kernel.org : File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)
error: failed retrieving file 'virtualbox-modules-4.1.8-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz' from archlinux.supsec.org : File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)
error: failed retrieving file 'virtualbox-modules-4.1.8-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz' from cake.lib.fit.edu : File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)
error: failed retrieving file 'virtualbox-modules-4.1.8-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz' from mirrors.cat.pdx.edu : Not Found
error: failed retrieving file 'virtualbox-modules-4.1.8-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz' from mirror.ece.vt.edu : Not Found
error: failed retrieving file 'virtualbox-modules-4.1.8-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz' from ftp.gtlib.gatech.edu : File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)
warning: failed to retrieve some files from community
error: failed to commit transaction (File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access))
Seems to be looking for 64 bit packages still. Had a similar issue when installing another prog as well

64 bit packages in i686 repos?!?

Just another day with pacman... I thought.
[root@lysithea stijn]# pacman -Syu
:: Synchronizing package databases...
borromini is up to date
core is up to date
extra is up to date
community is up to date
:: Starting full system upgrade...
warning: pan: local (0.132-1) is newer than extra (0.14.2.91-3)
resolving dependencies... done.
looking for inter-conflicts... done.
Targets: libgphoto2-2.4.0-3 unzip-5.52-3
Total Package Size: 1,42 MB
Beginning upgrade process...
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error: failed retrieving file 'unzip-5.52-3-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz' from ftp.belnet.be : File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)
warning: failed to retrieve some files from extra
error: failed to commit transaction (unexpected error)
This must be the weirdest error I've ever seen on Arch. Unless my system has 'upgraded' itself to a 64 bit one overnight.

omgwtf i'm having the same problem
[root@freeking danthux]# uname -a
Linux freeking 2.6.23-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat Oct 27 09:04:14 UTC 2007 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
[root@freeking danthux]# pacman -Syu
:: Sincronizando las bases de datos de paquetes...
core esta actualizado
extra esta actualizado
community esta actualizado
:: iniciando actualización completa del sistema...
resolviendo dependencias... Hecho.
verificando conflictos... Hecho.
A instalar: libgphoto2-2.4.0-3 unzip-5.52-3
Tamaño total de paquetes: 1,42 MB
¿Continuar con la instalación? [Y/n] y
:: Descargando paquetes desde extra...
error: failed retrieving file 'unzip-5.52-3-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz' from ftp.archlinux.org : File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)
warning: fallo al descargar algunos archivos desde extra
error: failed to commit transaction (error inesperado)
[root@freeking danthux]#
Last edited by danthux (2007-11-18 22:30:55)

Complete DE with minimal packages

I want to install a DE with minimal packages how can i achive it
I want a file manager , panel and GUI for laptop power management.
very light media player and library manager and wifi manager
I want to achive it with minimal packages and all with good GUI.
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fuscia wrote:...(or, if you want to be cool, like me, dwm)?...
I second that DWM thing. Just install dwm/wmii (dwm i found was easier to configure cuz its just straight up C code for everything). You can install/use anything you want for programs. I used to use nautilus (from my gnome days). But i then switched to thunar/vim for my file managing. I use thunar when i wanna see thumbnails etc (which is not that often). thunar does not manage the desktop for me, and you dont need that with dwm anywyas, everything is a couple of keystrokes away...
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$ sudo pacman -Syu
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core is up to date
extra is up to date
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:: Replace lib32-dbus with multilib/lib32-libdbus? [Y/n] y
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Trilby wrote:(edit: everyone beat me to it.)
Made me laugh
Trilby wrote:If you packaged those yourself, you'll have to manage those: fix the dependency lists, and update those packages.
As Tribly said it would have to manage / fix the package yourself as they are no longer maintained by either the official repos or the AUR. Another possibility would be to uninstall them if you don't need them.
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Does any one successfully run OCI application on HP using 32 bit libraries?
I got core dump at the end of running application, around desctruction part. Following are the statement I got from GDB:
#0 0xc005db14 in pthread_mutex_destroy+0x18 () from /usr/lib/libpthread.1
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I got the problem solved myself. The core dump happens when use OCI 32 bit libraries with STL string. It cores at destroying the STL string.
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Pacman is broken now.
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Followed all the news and changes from year 2010. My problem was that I could not upgrade pacman to version 4 (is 3.5 npw). But now even the current version 3.5 is broken.
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Pacman architecture + searching packages via interface

I am aware of the long discussions on GUI's for pacman. But we have to focus on the aspect of usefullness when talking about software development.
Pacman is a package installer etc.. and thus the link between a user and installing applications. Pacman is a very usefull tool/system: It is fast (using the wget option), doesn't breaks easily on dependencies, etc... . But pacman lacks on one big feature: searching!.
If I need to search for a application I will have to use the archlinux website! (using grep and pipe the output is not an option).
Of course I could use the pacman -Ss search-term command but then I could get a long list of unstructured results.
Also if i would like to batch some packages I have to type all of them at once -> this is not a preferable way of working. Whenever I like to install a number of packages at once I have to type all the names. Selecting them in a list is conveniance.
The kde application kpackage is perhaps the best way to implement this functionality. I found a lot of posts on a kpackage plugin but none very informative on the matther of existance.
I am not interested in a real GUI for pacman, but more specific information on pacmans architecture and possibilies to be implemented inside automatisation applications like kpackage.

This is simply not the case.
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extra/amule 2.0.0rc8-1
aMule is a eMule-like client for ed2k p2p network
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A bridge between P2P protocols and front-ends.
extra/napshare 1.3-1
A complete, fully featured Gnutella P2P client
extra/xmule 1.9.5-1
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pacman -Ss p2p ftp
current/bftpd 1.0.24-2
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current/vsftpd 2.0.2-1
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Hi, I have recently built a LinuxFromScratch system.
When I finished, I looked at installing package managers, and eventually settled on pacman.
Everything built OK, updated with -Syu fine.
However when I go to install a package with pacman -S package, it tries to download all the necessary packages like linux-api-headers, glibc, bash, etc.
All the basic system packages I have already installed...
The install then fails because these packages already exist.
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Last edited by Wigguno (2010-11-29 02:51:11)

I think you are doing it wrong....
If you want to run LFS using pacman, you need to create the relevant packages yourself and then install them using pacman. The first time will require you to "force" the installation of your packages over the LFS ones unless you prepare the package management back when you first enter your LFS chroot. It can be done but is not entirely simple.
What you appear to be doing is grabbing packages from the Arch repos to install on your LFS system. That is a really, really bad idea. You either create your own (LFS) packages or install Arch, Mixing is bad...
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I want pacman to automatically install all the dependencies.
to do so I tried:
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Regards,
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