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Annoyingduck

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[Solved] Remove Multilib Repo Properly On New Pacman

The wiki says to run this command, then uncomment the repo in pacman.conf:

sudo pacman -R $(paclist multilib | cut -f1 -d' ')

The command is returning this error:

bash: paclist: command not found
error: no targets specified (use -h for help)

My guess is that the new Pacman has changed how the paclist command works and the Wiki should be updated.  What is the current proper way to remove the multilib repo and revert to a pure 64bit system with the new Pacman?

Last edited by Annoyingduck (2018-06-09 15:10:57)

Lone_Wolf

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Re: [Solved] Remove Multilib Repo Properly On New Pacman

# pacman -Fys paclist

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Annoyingduck

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Re: [Solved] Remove Multilib Repo Properly On New Pacman

# pacman -Fys paclist

Are you saying to run the command instead of the command listed in the Wiki?  Then uncomment, and update the system? Is this correct?

Scimmia

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Re: [Solved] Remove Multilib Repo Properly On New Pacman

He's saying to figure out where paclist is and install it.

loqs

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Re: [Solved] Remove Multilib Repo Properly On New Pacman

Have a look at the man page for pacman to see what -Fys does.
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Annoyingduck

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Re: [Solved] Remove Multilib Repo Properly On New Pacman

I'm getting this after running the command:

community/pacman-contrib 1.0.0-2
    usr/bin/paclist

So paclist appears to be installed.

loqs

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Re: [Solved] Remove Multilib Repo Properly On New Pacman

What is the output of

pacman -Q pacman-contrib

Scimmia

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Re: [Solved] Remove Multilib Repo Properly On New Pacman

No, it isn't. Figure out what that command does before coming back.

Annoyingduck

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Re: [Solved] Remove Multilib Repo Properly On New Pacman

Ahh, got it.  I didn't realize the command was listing a package not installed.  I installed pacman-contrib and followed the wiki guide.  All is well now.  Thanks.

Seventh

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Re: [Solved] Remove Multilib Repo Properly On New Pacman

man pacman tells us this...

[       -F, --files
           Query the files database. This operation allows you to look for
           packages owning certain files or display files owned by certain
           packages. Only packages that are part of your sync databases are
           searched. See File Options below. ]

[-y, --refresh
           Download a fresh copy of the master package database from the
           server(s) defined in pacman.conf(5). This should typically be used
           each time you use --sysupgrade or -u. Passing two --refresh or -y
           flags will force a refresh of all package databases, even if they
           appear to be up-to-date. ]

[       -s, --search <regexp>
           This will search each package in the sync databases for names or
           descriptions that match regexp. When you include multiple search
           terms, only packages with descriptions matching ALL of those terms
           will be returned. ]

Annoyingduck

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Re: [Solved] Remove Multilib Repo Properly On New Pacman

I didn't know you could search for command associations with given packages not installed.  Pretty cool.  Never had a need for the -F command in pacman. Thanks again.