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HipsterDoofus

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Registered: 2017-07-27

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[Solved] Printer Install Using multilib

Recently installed my printer, a brother mfc-j880dw. Got the driver from the aur & during install was told by the terminal to edit out multilib in pacman because there is a 32 bit file in there. My system is 64.

The printer is installed & working OK but if I try to go pure 64 bit by using 'pacman -R $(paclist multilib | cut -f1 -d' ')' I get this>

checking dependencies...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: brother-mfc-j880dw: removing lib32-glibc breaks dependency 'lib32-glibc'

So the question is - does it matter? Is it OK to keep 32 & 64 bit together? Any drop in performance?

Last edited by HipsterDoofus (2017-08-01 00:25:14)

seth

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Re: [Solved] Printer Install Using multilib

This is a proprietary driver which comes with some 32bit ELF filters - you *need* the 32bit libraries to operate this printer.
They occupy space on your disk and in RAM but that's it. It doesn't affect your 64bit binaries.

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HipsterDoofus

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Re: [Solved] Printer Install Using multilib

Excellent. Thanks for that. One more thing ticked off.

2ManyDogs

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Re: [Solved] Printer Install Using multilib

If you are happy with the answer, please mark your thread [SOLVED] (edit the title of your first post).

HipsterDoofus

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Re: [Solved] Printer Install Using multilib

Forgot about that. Thanks.