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GameCodingNinja2

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Registered: 2017-12-29

Posts: 20

[SOLVED] Unable to install lib32-ncurses

I need lib32-ncurses for Android Studio.

I uncommented the the entries in my etc/pacman.conf under...

# If you want to run 32 bit applications on your x86_64 system,
# enable the multilib repositories as required here.

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

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

...but this is the output after doing so.

sudo pacman -S lib32-ncurses
warning: database file for 'multilib-testing' does not exist
warning: database file for 'multilib' does not exist
error: target not found: lib32-ncurses

Is there something I'm missing?

Last edited by GameCodingNinja2 (2017-12-31 17:56:19)

eschwartz

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Registered: 2014-08-08

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Re: [SOLVED] Unable to install lib32-ncurses

Yes, turning on the repository does not cause it to download the database containing the packagelist, you need to -Syu first.

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hcjl

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From: berlin

Registered: 2007-06-29

Posts: 330

Re: [SOLVED] Unable to install lib32-ncurses

And if you don't run a testing system you should disable multilib-testing.

GameCodingNinja2

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Registered: 2017-12-29

Posts: 20

Re: [SOLVED] Unable to install lib32-ncurses

Cool, thanks. I comment out the testing section.

Now are you saying to do...
    pacman -Syu
or
    pacman -Syu lib32-ncurses

Doing "pacman -Syu" looks like it wants to to a system upgrade. Should I be doing that?

Last edited by GameCodingNinja2 (2017-12-31 16:46:46)

WorMzy

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Re: [SOLVED] Unable to install lib32-ncurses

Yes. You nede to sync the package databases (-y), so you should also run an upgrade (-u). Not doing so will lead to partial updates.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Sy … nsupported

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