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murugan

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Registered: 2010-08-02

Posts: 27

Re: multilib repository: Feedback & Notification Thread

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.

ok. I read that. Atleast we have flash plugin and skype in the repo. I can make use of AUR for the rest for now.

siriusb

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From: Hungary

Registered: 2010-01-01

Posts: 422

Re: multilib repository: Feedback & Notification Thread

Thank you for your work! I installed skype and flashplugin from multilib and they works. When I tried nspluginwrapper form AUR it didnt work.
Keep up the good job!

abraxas88

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From: Rome, Italy

Registered: 2009-12-12

Posts: 88

Re: multilib repository: Feedback & Notification Thread

Hi guys, I installed flashplugin from the new repository multilib. Pacman says that I have to remove gcc-libs and install gcc-libs-multilib. Is it a safe operation?

wonder

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From: Bucharest, Romania

Registered: 2006-07-05

Posts: 5,941

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Re: multilib repository: Feedback & Notification Thread

Hi guys, I installed flashplugin from the new repository multilib. Pacman says that I have to remove gcc-libs and install gcc-libs-multilib. Is it a safe operation?

yes. i believe in the future it would be lib32-gcc-libs or something like that to avoid this replace

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fgr

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From: Italy

Registered: 2009-02-12

Posts: 20

Re: multilib repository: Feedback & Notification Thread

I've just started an upgrade and the following is what I'm getting:

~ % sudo clyde -Su -a
:: Starting full system upgrade...
:: Synchronizing AUR database...
[...]
==> Installing the following packages from AUR
Targets (4): lib32-cairo-ubuntu  lib32-fontconfig-ubuntu  lib32-libxft-ubuntu 
            lib32-freetype2-ubuntu 

[...]

==> Finished making: lib32-freetype2-ubuntu 2.4.2-2 (ven 27 ago 2010, 21.12.43, CEST)
loading package data...
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...
error: failed to prepare transaction (impossibile soddisfare le dipendenze)
:: lib32-pango: requires lib32-freetype2

I think, it happens because I've installed lib32-freetype2-ubuntu instead of lib32-freetype2. Is there a solution for solving it?

wonder

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Registered: 2006-07-05

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Re: multilib repository: Feedback & Notification Thread

@fgr packaging bug in lib32-freetype2-ubuntu  . it doesn't provide lib32-freetype2

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Banton

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Registered: 2010-05-28

Posts: 67

Re: multilib repository: Feedback & Notification Thread

Everthing was fine since I installed flashplugin and skype from multilib. But now something seems to be messed up, I can't upgrade some packages because of some dependency issues.

:: Synchronizing package databases...
 core is up to date
 extra                                      458.7K  630.2K/s 00:00:01 [--------------------------------------] 100%
 community                                  376.8K  583.9K/s 00:00:01 [--------------------------------------] 100%
 multilib                                    19.6K  145.1K/s 00:00:00 [--------------------------------------] 100%
:: Starting full system upgrade...
resolving dependencies...
warning: dependency cycle detected:
warning: lib32-gcc-libs will be installed before its gcc-libs-multilib dependency
looking for inter-conflicts...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: lib32-libstdc++5: requires lib32-gcc

can not find lib32-gcc in multilib repo.

Edit: Forget it. It's an AUR package that was isntalled as depency of bin32-acrobat. think it's not beeing updated since the multilib change.

Last edited by Banton (2010-08-27 19:52:13)

fgr

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From: Italy

Registered: 2009-02-12

Posts: 20

Re: multilib repository: Feedback & Notification Thread

@fgr packaging bug in lib32-freetype2-ubuntu  . it doesn't provide lib32-freetype2

that means there's a bug in any lib32-*-ubuntu. I'll point out this stuff to the maintainer/s of these packages. Thanks for your fast reply.

hokum_rus

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From: Russia, Novosibirsk

Registered: 2009-03-14

Posts: 28

Re: multilib repository: Feedback & Notification Thread

Very nice work, thank you! Everything works fine, 32-bit flashplugin really better than old 64 bit... Shame on Adobe

Last edited by hokum_rus (2010-08-28 03:32:37)

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zodmaner

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Registered: 2007-07-11

Posts: 653

Re: multilib repository: Feedback & Notification Thread

Just install flashplugin from multilib repository. Works like a charm! Thank you for your effort, guys. This new repository will make life a lot easier for us 64 bit user.

I also love that now lib32 (and bin32) packages are inside their own repository. A lot better than having them mixing in with other community packages.

Last edited by zodmaner (2010-08-28 03:47:43)

mat69

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Registered: 2010-08-17

Posts: 5

Re: multilib repository: Feedback & Notification Thread

Thank you for all the work! I always had some problems with wine but now it appears to be working quite nice.

mcover

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From: Germany

Registered: 2007-01-25

Posts: 134

Re: multilib repository: Feedback & Notification Thread

Thanks a lot, this is great! Transitioning to x86_64 should be even easier now and anybody who (for reasons of 32-bit support) didn't want to use 64bit should damn well switch now

Only problem so far is that Opera doesn't work with flashplugin (Firefox is fine). I'm investigating, but couldn't make it work yet.

Banton

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Registered: 2010-05-28

Posts: 67

Re: multilib repository: Feedback & Notification Thread

mcover you just have to add /usr/lib/nspluginwrapper/i386/plugins to Operas Plugin Path.

sand_man

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From: Australia

Registered: 2008-06-10

Posts: 2,164

Re: multilib repository: Feedback & Notification Thread

so if all goes well will the recent updates on the front page show multilib updates too?

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dragonfi

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Registered: 2010-06-11

Posts: 12

Re: multilib repository: Feedback & Notification Thread

It works fine, but I tried to install Skype, and I got this error:

$ skype
skype: error while loading shared libraries: libXv.so.1: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64

I have the necessary libraries, freshley installed, but for some reason it points to the wrong, 64-bit libXv.so.1
Here are the outputs of some relevant commands:

$ whereis libXv.so.1
libXv.so: /usr/lib/libXv.so.1 /usr/lib/libXv.so
$ find /usr/lib32 -name libXv.so.1
/usr/lib32/libXv.so.1

Am I doing something wrong?

PS: I would really like to get rid of all the bloated, outdated, proprietary crap, that Skype is, but it seems the whole world want to use it... (yes, I'm a bit annoyed by it...)

Last edited by dragonfi (2010-08-28 12:02:13)

Snowman

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From: Montreal, Canada

Registered: 2004-08-20

Posts: 5,212

Re: multilib repository: Feedback & Notification Thread

so if all goes well will the recent updates on the front page show multilib updates too?

it already does.

drama

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From: muscatine, iowa, USA

Registered: 2009-12-07

Posts: 12

Re: multilib repository: Feedback & Notification Thread

im currently in the process of doing a reinstall after a hard drive failure. i have enabled multilib. i noticed that the package is built with both wine64 and wine32. i also heard that only 64bit apps work in wine64. is there anything special that needs to be done to use wine32 by default? i dont use any 64bit apps that require wine.

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ngoonee

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Re: multilib repository: Feedback & Notification Thread

It will autodetect which one to use

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zephyr

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Registered: 2008-03-20

Posts: 103

Re: multilib repository: Feedback & Notification Thread

yes. i believe in the future it would be lib32-gcc-libs or something like that to avoid this replace

Indeed there is lib32-gcc-libs now and the replacing of gcc-libs with gcc-libs-multilib is not needed.

If i understood this corrctly seeing the pkgbuilds from multilib repo, gcc-libs-multilib is a makedepend for all lib32 pkgs.
So we need it only if we want to compile some lib32 pkg correct?

Is it possible to compile packages for i686 using gcc-libs-multilib?(without chroots etc.)

RobertMe

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From: The Netherlands

Registered: 2010-07-04

Posts: 45

Re: multilib repository: Feedback & Notification Thread

Only problem so far is that Opera doesn't work with flashplugin (Firefox is fine). I'm investigating, but couldn't make it work yet.

That's because Opera doesn't search for plugins in the /usr/lib/nspluginwrapper folder and doesn't use the nspluginwrapper plugin (because it can handle 32 bit plugins on its own and the plugins wrapped with nspluginwrapper only cause problems). I already patched the PKGBUILD and did send a mail to the multilib mailinglist (which isn't published yet) describing the problem and a solution, which is to place the plugin in /usr/lib32/mozilla/plugins (instead of /usr/lib/nspluginwrapper), Opera will find the plugin in that folder and other browsers can still use the nspluginwrapper wrapped one from /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins. This also keeps the /usr/lib/ folder free of 32 bit binaries and the plugin is (IMHO) still placed in a logical location (/mozilla/plugins from the corresponding lib folder)

nous

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Registered: 2006-08-18

Posts: 323

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Re: multilib repository: Feedback & Notification Thread

Any of you Opera users get flash sound on oss4? Because I don't.

[EDIT] I just did, ignore me

Last edited by nous (2010-08-28 21:55:08)

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sand_man

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From: Australia

Registered: 2008-06-10

Posts: 2,164

Re: multilib repository: Feedback & Notification Thread

so if all goes well will the recent updates on the front page show multilib updates too?

it already does.

So it does

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Sky

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Registered: 2009-07-11

Posts: 4

Re: multilib repository: Feedback & Notification Thread

- 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'.

I agree with this.

sultanoswing

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Registered: 2008-07-23

Posts: 314

Re: multilib repository: Feedback & Notification Thread

acroread no longer works for me since (*I think*) I added the multilib repo and updated last week.

Fails with the following in terminal:

(acroread:5094): GdkPixbuf-WARNING **: Error loading XPM image loader: Image type 'xpm' is not supported

(acroread:5094): GdkPixbuf-WARNING **: Error loading XPM image loader: Image type 'xpm' is not supported

(acroread:5094): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_ref: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed

(acroread:5094): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_ref: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed

This is on my laptop & desktop x64 systems, using bin32-acroread from the AUR and I also tried the binary blob from adobe. Not sure I can blame the multilib repo (which is excellent otherwise, btw).

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athelas

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Registered: 2010-06-16

Posts: 53

Re: multilib repository: Feedback & Notification Thread

I've installed Skype on the old way. Everything works, but is it better to install it again with the multilib repository or doesn't it make any difference?