[Solved] Multilib Repository Won't Enable

brando56894 · 2013-10-26 01:27:10

I have an odd problem where when I try to enable the Multilib or Multilib-testing in pacman.conf and then save it, and issue sudo pacman -Syy it doesn't show that it's pulling down the repository file since it only shows core, extra and community.

Last edited by brando56894 (2013-10-31 00:56:11)

msthev · 2013-10-26 01:31:47

Read the manual.
Read the comments in pacman.conf.
Post your pacman.conf here. How do you expect anyone to help you if you provide no details at all?

karol · 2013-10-26 01:36:06

Multilib is only for the 64-bit systems, but you should get download errors if you tried to enable it on a 32-bit one.

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brando56894 · 2013-10-27 03:00:42

Sorry about the lack of detail. I am running a 64 boy system, I'm not on my PC but my Pacman.conf is the standard on with just multilib uncommented.

karol · 2013-10-27 03:04:17

brando56894 wrote:

with just multilib uncommented.

Maybe you uncommented it the wrong way. Compare how e.g. [core] is uncommented. If you uncomment [testing], does it work?

Jellicent · 2013-10-27 12:10:02

brando56894 wrote:

Sorry about the lack of detail. I am running a 64 boy system, I'm not on my PC but my Pacman.conf is the standard on with just multilib uncommented.

For the record, you have to uncomment both lines, not just "multilib".

brando56894 · 2013-10-31 00:32:10

I'm an idiot...

After reading your guys comments about uncommenting the repositories I was thinking "of course I did! I remember doing it! I'm not a stupid noob!" and I just went to post my pacman.conf to show it to you guys....and I realized that the header lines were commented out but the repository locations were uncommented!

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karol · 2013-10-31 00:34:38

Jellicent told you what you have to do.
See https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Multilib

Did you even try to do as I suggested and figure it out yourself https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 9#p1342009 ?

brando56894 · 2013-10-31 00:37:47

Looks like you caught me before I edited it Karol! lol I swore I didn't make such a noob mistake.

karol · 2013-10-31 00:48:24

When I saw your previous post (before the edit) I went arghhhhhhhhwrrrr <makes strangling motions with his hands>

Nice to see you did figure it out :-)
Please remember to mark the thread as solved https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=130309

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brando56894 · 2013-10-31 00:55:48

Hahaha I felt like strangling myself!

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