Arch Linux

arthurdent84

Member

Registered: 2014-12-03

Posts: 6

[SOLVED] pacman keeps trying to install 32bit packages on my 64bit OS

Hi,
I have just installed Arch linux first time (ISO as of 01 Nov). My OS should be 64bit (my hw is 64bit) but pacman fails on any package I try to install.

Example

$ pacman -S grub
error: failed to prepare transaction (package architecture is not valid)
:: package grub-1:2.02.beta2-5-i686 does not have a valid architecture

So it tries to install 32bit package (and fails), but why?

My system:

$ uname -a
Linux archiso 3.17.1-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Oct 15 15:04:35 CEST 2014 x86_64 GNU/Linux

I checked /etc/pacman.conf:

Architecture = auto

and /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist (the first three entries are shown; all of the mirrors have the same format):

## Score: 0.3, Germany
Server = http://mirror.gnomus.de/$repo/os/$arch
## Score: 0.3, France
Server = http://archlinux.polymorf.fr/$repo/os/$arch
## Score: 0.5, Netherlands
Server = http://ftp.nluug.nl/os/Linux/distr/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch

And it is not only grub, it is any package (e.g. gamin, lxde)

Last edited by arthurdent84 (2014-12-03 14:59:34)

graysky

Wiki Maintainer

From: :wq

Registered: 2008-12-01

Posts: 10,694

Website

Re: [SOLVED] pacman keeps trying to install 32bit packages on my 64bit OS

Not sure why that is happening... just set the Arch to x86_64 in pacman.conf and be done with it.

---

CPU-optimized Linux-ck packages @ Repo-ck  • AUR packages • Zsh and other configs

thearcherblog

Member

Registered: 2014-10-30

Posts: 165

Re: [SOLVED] pacman keeps trying to install 32bit packages on my 64bit OS

Edited

Last edited by thearcherblog (2014-12-03 13:14:49)

Spider.007

Member

Registered: 2004-06-20

Posts: 1,175

Re: [SOLVED] pacman keeps trying to install 32bit packages on my 64bit OS

What does pacman --debug tell you about 'arch:' (which is de detected architecture)?

arthurdent84

Member

Registered: 2014-12-03

Posts: 6

Re: [SOLVED] pacman keeps trying to install 32bit packages on my 64bit OS

What does pacman --debug tell you about 'arch:' (which is de detected architecture)?

...
debug: config: arch: x86_64
...

and of course the mirrors added look like this:

debug: adding new server URL to database 'core': http://mirror.gnomus.de/core/os/x86_64

karol

Archivist

Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: [SOLVED] pacman keeps trying to install 32bit packages on my 64bit OS

Remove that i686 package from the package cache and try again.

Allan

Pacman

From: Brisbane, AU

Registered: 2007-06-09

Posts: 11,508

Website

Re: [SOLVED] pacman keeps trying to install 32bit packages on my 64bit OS

Try forcing a databse refresh with "pacman -Syyu".

---

PGP Key: F99FFE0FEAE999BD | I develop pacman - buy me a drink!

arthurdent84

Member

Registered: 2014-12-03

Posts: 6

Re: [SOLVED] pacman keeps trying to install 32bit packages on my 64bit OS

Try forcing a databse refresh with "pacman -Syyu".

This helped!
Thanks to all of you!