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hungerfish

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Registered: 2009-09-13

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'Eradicating' lib32 on x64 system

Hi!

Ok, Im runnning atop amd64, so my system is 64bit.
Now I have some '32-only' apps installed, notably wine.
Of course this means that I have a huge amount of 'lib32-libs' installed, aka. a 'mixed' system.

I would like to remedy this, to the point that I have as little as possible 'lib32' -packages installed.
Also, I then want to setup a 32-bit chroot env. and install/run wine (and others) from there.

How do I go about 'cleansing' my system most effectively? 

pacman -Qs lib32

Produces an impressive list of packages, should I just remove them all, or is there a 'saner' way of handling this??

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ngoonee

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Re: 'Eradicating' lib32 on x64 system

List down all your 32-bit apps. Wine, google-earth, skype are normally the 'main' culprits. I have a few more, but that's just me.

After that, use

pacman -Rsn <your 32-bit apps>

which removes those apps and all dependencies they pulled in. Then search for lib32 and see what else you have, use -Qi to see what depends on it.

Of course, you can just

pacman -Rsn $( pacman -Qs lib32 )

but bulk removal like that MAY delete something you'd want. For example, what if a 64-bit package has lib32 in its description (not that I know of any, my 64-bit system doesn't have any packages with lib32 anywhere).

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Re: 'Eradicating' lib32 on x64 system

You will probably need to remove bin32-* packages too.

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hungerfish

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Registered: 2009-09-13

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Re: 'Eradicating' lib32 on x64 system

Thanks for the tip!
So basically, after removing all packages that "pacman -Qs bin32" and "pacman -Qs lib32" produce, my system can be considered 'clean'?

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