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rossboulet

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[SOLVED] Migrating to 64 bit - stuck on Linux pkg

Attempting to migrate a 32 bit Arch system to 64 bit. I followed the instructions in https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Mi … hitectures

Everything was going as expected until I got to the installation of the linux package. At first, i ran

#pacman -S linux

as instructed an there was an x86_64 suffix on the package name.

However, I was low on space in my boot partition and the installation failed. I had linux-lts and my own compiled version in the boot directory and was running on my custom 4.9.30 kernel, so I uninstalled linux-lts to free space with a

#pacman -R linux-lts

But when I tried to run

#pacman -S linux

again, it seems to want to install the 32 bit version again (There is no longer a n x86_64 suffix on the package name. I DO have Architecture = x86_64 in /etc/pacman.conf and $arch on all the sites in /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

I also tried

#pacman --arch x86_64 -S linux

with the same results.

Any suggestions on what I'm doing wrong?

Last edited by rossboulet (2017-06-13 13:47:38)

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Re: [SOLVED] Migrating to 64 bit - stuck on Linux pkg

Attempting to migrate a 32 bit Arch system to 64 bit. I followed the instructions in https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Mi … hitectures

That page presents 2 completely different methods. The rest of your post indicates that you are upgrading from the target system, but please be specific in the future.

But when I tried to run

#pacman -S linux

again, it seems to want to install the 32 bit version again (There is no longer a n x86_64 suffix on the package name)

"Seems" expresses uncertainty. What is the exact output of the command?

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rossboulet

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Re: [SOLVED] Migrating to 64 bit - stuck on Linux pkg

Yes, I was using Method 2 (on a running system) on the migration page.

what I saw was:

#pacman -S linux
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...

Packages (1) linux-4.11.3-1

Total Installed Size:  80.49 MiB

:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n]

The first time through, that failed because the boot partition was full, there was an "x86_64" added to the package name.

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Re: [SOLVED] Migrating to 64 bit - stuck on Linux pkg

You won't see the architecture appended to the package name, just hit 'Y'.

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rossboulet

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Re: [SOLVED] Migrating to 64 bit - stuck on Linux pkg

I see now where I was confused. I did see the "x86_64" the first time through, but it was not when pacman presented the package name, but when it was being downloaded.

#pacman -S linux
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...

Packages (1) linux-4.11.3-1

Total Installed Size:  80.49 MiB

:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n]
:: Retrieving packages...
 linux-4.11.3-1-x86_64   ...... <<<<<there it is

I knew I saw it the first time, but from then on, it was in my cache so it did not download again. Thus, I never saw the "x86_64" again because pacman didn't need to download it again.

Last edited by rossboulet (2017-06-13 13:48:48)

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I wish that they would sell it.
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