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fredrikhcs

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Registered: 2006-12-21

Posts: 13

Pacman force architecture?

Is there a way to force pacman to install packages even though they're of the "wrong" architecture? For instance, I want to install wine, but I have Arch64. I know wine's in AUR, but I'd rather get the official one.

phrakture

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Registered: 2003-10-29

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Re: Pacman force architecture?

That will not work at all.  An 'architecture' is your machine and it's hardware.  What you are asking is, in essence, "How do I use ATI's drivers for my Nvidia card?"

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act28

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Registered: 2011-07-11

Posts: 10

Re: Pacman force architecture?

I think he means:
pacman -S --arch {i686|x86_64} {package name}

jasonwryan

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Registered: 2009-05-09

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Re: Pacman force architecture?

Whoa! act28 - this is a four and half year old thread https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fo … Bumping.27

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ewaller

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From: Pasadena, CA

Registered: 2009-07-13

Posts: 20,652

Re: Pacman force architecture?

I think me, this may be a record.  2007 -- Yikes.

Hi Jason -- I see we are still on the boards at the same time.

Closing

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