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silpertan

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Registered: 2014-01-30

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[SOLVED] Multilib enabled but not installed and says nothing to do

I'm trying to install multilib so that I can get a microcontroller compiler working (msp430). I enabled multilib in /etc/pacman.conf and did a full upgrade, but it doesn't install anything.

The change that I made in /etc/pacman.conf (uncommented these two lines):

[multilib]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

Pacman update says there is nothing to do (the first time, it did download an updated multilib database but even then it still said "there is nothing to do"):

[root@latilap ~]# pacman -Syu
:: Synchronizing package databases...
 core is up to date
 extra is up to date
 community is up to date
 multilib is up to date
:: Starting full system upgrade...
 there is nothing to do
[root@latilap ~]# echo $?
0
[root@latilap ~]# 

But I expected it to download and install something - e.g. there's no lib32 directory:

[root@latilap ~]# ls -al /usr/
total 104
drwxr-xr-x  8 root root  4096 Jan 11 19:14 .
drwxr-xr-x 17 root root  4096 Jan 11 19:14 ..
drwxr-xr-x  5 root root 36864 Jan 16 21:40 bin
drwxr-xr-x 83 root root 12288 Jan 16 21:40 include
drwxr-xr-x 58 root root 28672 Jan 16 21:40 lib
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root     3 Oct 25 12:41 lib64 -> lib
drwxr-xr-x 11 root root  4096 Jun 11  2014 local
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root     3 Oct 25 12:41 sbin -> bin
drwxr-xr-x 64 root root  4096 Jan 11 19:21 share
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root  4096 Jun 11  2014 src
[root@latilap ~]#

FYI, my /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist:

Server = http://mirror.umd.edu/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
Server = http://mirror.rit.edu/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
Server = http://arch.localmsp.org/arch/$repo/os/$arch
Server = rsync://mirror.rit.edu/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
Server = rsync://mirror.umd.edu/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch

Am I missing the point or some important step?

Last edited by silpertan (2015-01-17 06:26:33)

jasonwryan

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Re: [SOLVED] Multilib enabled but not installed and says nothing to do

Have you tried to install anything from multilib?

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silpertan

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Registered: 2014-01-30

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Re: [SOLVED] Multilib enabled but not installed and says nothing to do

I suppose that should have been obvious. The description on the multilib page (under the Enabling section) made it sound like I would automatically get 32-bit stuff to go along with my already installed 64-bit stuff when I enabled the repository and did an update.

With the addition of lib32-glibc (plus everything in multilib-devel just for fun), my compiler now runs.

Thanks!

Last edited by silpertan (2015-01-17 06:27:51)