multilib repository: Feedback & Notification Thread

ngoonee · 2010-08-26 17:11:09

[multilib] is 32-bit apps built to work with 64-bit Arch. They're being moved out of [community] so that the 3 main and 1 extra repos (testing, core, extra, community) are purely 64-bit for 64-bit Arch, and purely 32-bit for 32-bit Arch (let's ignore grub for now).

The next release of pacman may (or may not) have [multilib] added to pacman.conf. You could just add it in manually, check the wiki for instructions.

Banton · 2010-08-26 19:46:45

really cool, avoids some AUR packages. but I didn't get it right, how to deal with the new multilib repo. I have nspluginwrapper and skype installed from AUR. as well as some lib32 packages from community. Now what? just add the multilib repo and fire an upgrade and all will be fine?

wonder · 2010-08-26 19:50:50

for nspluginwrapper and flash i suggest to remove them before update. then install flashplugin from multilib repo and it would work out of the box

fincan · 2010-08-26 20:41:37

well I added the repository before core/extra/community entries in pacman.conf and now I can install/upgrade packages with multilib packages, should I do any other thing to use multilib packages without any problem?

Btw skype needs lib32-v4l-utils for video support but there is not the packages.

mangus · 2010-08-26 21:03:30

I installed skype and flashplugin from the repo and they are working fine here , kudos to the devs involved for this work , the organization looks a lot more cleaner now , good job

fincan wrote:

Btw skype needs lib32-v4l-utils for video support but there is not the packages.

probably.. I don't use video

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fincan · 2010-08-26 21:09:24

and it has been just added

ataraxia · 2010-08-26 21:10:30

I see some bugs, but I don't know which FS project to report them under:

- (edit: I see this is now taken care of) flashplugin should depend on lib32-libxdamage. nspluginwrapper cannot create/install the "fake" plugin without it and the plugin will not load if lib32-libxdamage is removed afterwards.

- lib32-glibc does not have ldd32. Is there another way to accomplish what that used to do?

Other than those minor issues, this is great! Very much appreciated.

Last edited by ataraxia (2010-08-26 21:16:20)

jxy · 2010-08-26 21:23:06

ataraxia wrote:

- lib32-glibc does not have ldd32. Is there another way to accomplish what that used to do?

They rm'ed all the binaries in PKGBUILD. IMHO, they should keep some useful binaries like 'ldd' and install it as 'ldd32'.

heftig · 2010-08-26 21:31:47

glibc's ldd will be patched to be multilib-compatible. In the meantime, you can do it yourself. Check the wine PKGBUILD for the sed command needed.

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noalwin · 2010-08-26 23:06:35

I just switched to multilib and spotify does not work anymore on wine.

By the way, http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Cur … velopement needs to be updated

wonder · 2010-08-26 23:08:05

noalwin wrote:

I just switched to multilib and spotify does not work anymore on wine.

works for me and i didn't do any modification to my current ~/.wine

noalwin · 2010-08-26 23:20:12

wonder wrote:

noalwin wrote:
I just switched to multilib and spotify does not work anymore on wine.
works for me and i didn't do any modification to my current ~/.wine

On a new account spotify seems to work, so the problem may be in my ~/.wine

I remember to have modified wine's registry to enable antialiasing... but I'm not sure if that is related to the problem

[EDIT] I reinstaled it and now seems to work...

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flamelab · 2010-08-26 23:25:15

The new multilib repo works really nice here (I mean the packages). Nice work, as always

alfonsodg · 2010-08-26 23:40:03

ataraxia wrote:

I see some bugs, but I don't know which FS project to report them under:
- (edit: I see this is now taken care of) flashplugin should depend on lib32-libxdamage. nspluginwrapper cannot create/install the "fake" plugin without it and the plugin will not load if lib32-libxdamage is removed afterwards.
- lib32-glibc does not have ldd32. Is there another way to accomplish what that used to do?
Other than those minor issues, this is great! Very much appreciated.

I have problems with the flashplugin after add multilib repo

LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so [/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so: fichero demasiado corto]

swiftscythe · 2010-08-27 00:11:28

Is it possible that firefox crashes with the flashplugin provided in the multilib repo? It does for me...

Last edited by swiftscythe (2010-08-27 00:12:12)

heftig · 2010-08-27 00:39:02

alfonsodg wrote:

I have problems with the flashplugin after add multilib repo
LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so [/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so: fichero demasiado corto]

File too short? Try reinstalling flashplugin.

alfonsodg · 2010-08-27 01:08:15

heftig wrote:

alfonsodg wrote:
I have problems with the flashplugin after add multilib repo
LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so [/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so: fichero demasiado corto]
File too short? Try reinstalling flashplugin.

Done! However still the problem, i have uninstall also nspluginmanager and some combinations, the file has 0 bytes (strange, right?)

heftig · 2010-08-27 02:14:36

No errors during installation of flashplugin?

Anonymo · 2010-08-27 03:01:23

@heftig No errors, just needed to restart the browser. I use Chromium. Firefox works too. 64 bit, obviously

Can skype-oss and bin32-skype-oss be merged or put into the repo? The source is not available from skype anymore, but I have the file on my mediafire account.

Source: http://download929.mediafire.com/drjayx … ss.tar.bz2

PKGBUILD from AUR: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=18312

It works with OSSv4.

Edit:
Woohoo! I just saw what was done with bringing in flashplugin, nspluginwrapper AND libflashsupport with OSS support. Nice!! I love you guys (don't throw water bottle please)

Last edited by Anonymo (2010-08-27 03:11:35)

orlfman · 2010-08-27 04:38:07

Great work guys. This was something that has been needed since Arch 64 first came out. This makes installing flash, wine, and skype so much easier now. No more digging around in AUR trying to find packages.

Keep up the great work guys! Hope this repo gets enabled by default in pacman.conf for new and old users can get flash and wine installed from the beginning!

Last edited by orlfman (2010-08-27 04:38:45)

murugan · 2010-08-27 06:15:59

I am really surprised. Great Job.
I am eagerly waiting for the packages picasa, google-earth and jre (for applet support in 64bit firefox) in multilib.
Thank you very much

Last edited by murugan (2010-08-27 06:17:11)

fettouhi · 2010-08-27 08:51:44

flamelab wrote:

The new multilib repo works really nice here (I mean the packages). Nice work, as always

+1 Great work guys!

ngoonee · 2010-08-27 09:22:18

murugan wrote:

I am really surprised. Great Job.
I am eagerly waiting for the packages picasa, google-earth and jre (for applet support in 64bit firefox) in multilib.
Thank you very much

If you read the mailing list thread on this, its highly unlikely for various reasons that any of the mentioned packages will be brought in.

swiftscythe · 2010-08-27 09:28:52

Removing the flashplugin before upgrading did the work, thanks, and sorry, I didn't see it last night...

Foucault · 2010-08-27 09:52:13

Do I have to install gcc-multilib, binutils-multilib and libtool-multilib as stated in the wiki to use the lib32-* packages in [multilib]? I suppose no, but thought it would be better to ask.

Edit: Since many lib32 packaegs depend on gcc-libs-multilib and because gcc relies on gcc-libs (obviously) it seems that the packages are indeed needed. Thanks for your effort in bringing a sane multilib system for Arch!

Last edited by Foucault (2010-08-27 10:38:43)

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