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ezequiel.ezb

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Registered: 2017-08-14

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Can I install PCSXR 32 bit from official repos on 64bit build?[SOLVED]

I'm having a problem.

I want to play PSX games on my arch linux and when I install PCSXR from the repos, it installs the 64 bit version. But there is a problem with it. And it is that PCSXR (and ePSXe alike) use PSEMU as their plugin interface, and most of these plugins are closed source and only available in 32 bits.  In fact, I don't even know what's the point of a 64 bit PSEMU based emulator, since from my past experience they don't provide any performance gain, but rather incompatibility with a wide range of plugins, rendering them (at least for me) unusable.

So I tried get it from the AUR and build it using makepkg CARCH=i686 -si and the result was strange: all dependencies got resolved and the package compiles fine, but once it proceeds to install it pacman says:
package pcsxr-gtk2-1.9.92-1-i686 does not have a valid architecture

Which for me seems quite strange. So my last attempt was to build it from source, but it is a shame that neither the project pages (they have two, one at codeplex, other at git) has adequate instructions on how to compile (the ones provided are quite generic and did not work for me) and they seem to have no documentation at all. Plus I wanted a PCSX-GTK2 if possible, since the conventional version won't launch plugins with a gtk2 interface.

In essence, I wanted to know if I can install the 32 bit official arch package on my 64bit build, or if some has another solution, since 64bit PCSX seems quite useless if can't run closed source plugins.

Last edited by ezequiel.ezb (2017-10-13 15:54:47)

Scimmia

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Re: Can I install PCSXR 32 bit from official repos on 64bit build?[SOLVED]

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Multilib

ezequiel.ezb

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Registered: 2017-08-14

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Re: Can I install PCSXR 32 bit from official repos on 64bit build?[SOLVED]

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Multilib

I have multilib enable, strangely, seems like the 32bit version of pcsxr is on the community repo, see: https://www.archlinux.org/packages/?sor … =&flagged=

In other words, even with multilib enabled, I still get the 64 bit package,

Scimmia

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Re: Can I install PCSXR 32 bit from official repos on 64bit build?[SOLVED]

It's in Community for i686 only. You're not on i686

ezequiel.ezb

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Re: Can I install PCSXR 32 bit from official repos on 64bit build?[SOLVED]

Now it worked, my fault, I had not synchronized the repos after enabling multilib, so I got the old package anyways. Thanks for the help.