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swigglin

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Registered: 2014-07-19

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pacman cannot find multilib packages (have enabled multilib) [solved]

Hello. I have just installed Arch and a few packages (nvidia drivers, xorg, gnome, etc), and I would like to install steam but pacman seems unable to find the package.

The wiki (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/steam) tells me I need to enable multilib. So part of my pacman.conf file now looks like this (I assume I don't need the testing one):

#[multilib-testing]
#Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

#[multilib]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

After changing the file I did:

pacman -Syu

I also tried:

pacman -Syy

The wiki also said I need to install the 32-bit version of my graphics driver. So:

pacman -S lib32-nvidia-libgl

But when I do that command pacman says:

error: target not found: lib32-nvidia-libgl

I also get the same kind of message if I try to install the steam package.

My mirror list looks like this

Server = http://ftp.iinet.net.au/pub/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
Server = http://mirror.internode.on.net/pub/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
Server = http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch

Any tips for what I have overlooked?

Last edited by swigglin (2014-07-19 13:15:34)

WorMzy

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Re: pacman cannot find multilib packages (have enabled multilib) [solved]

#[multilib]

You forgot to uncomment this line in pacman.conf.

Last edited by WorMzy (2014-07-19 13:07:43)

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swigglin

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Registered: 2014-07-19

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Re: pacman cannot find multilib packages (have enabled multilib) [solved]

That did it! Thanks!

I was wondering why I needed to uncomment a file reference that was already there above :-P