Multilib removal post-install photoshop

covid19 · 2022-10-12 11:23:29

Okay so I have no other multilib software, just ended up installing some 70-ish packages to finally long at last have Photoshop 2021 working just about *perfectly*
Would it be okay to comment out the multilib repos now? I don't want to touch those packages, no upgrades at all.
Just want to make sure this doesn't cause me any havoc

V1del · 2022-10-12 11:26:48

No this is not ok, lib32-packages might depend on their non lib32 counterparts and doing partial updates here will eventually break things for at the very least your photoshop/wine installation: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/System … nsupported

If you want to avoid doing updates here then set up a container/virtual environment where you can keep the internal contents outdated and unchanging.

Mod note, not a testing issue moving to NC

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covid19 · 2022-10-12 11:40:46

Damn, glad I posted and not just done it as usual haha. I guess my assumption was wrong about ia32 pkgs not having dependencies on their x86-64 cousins. I have a list of all the 32-bit packages that were pulled in, would take a long while and be tedious but could verify which ones have dependencies from non lib32

Not sure I know how to set up a container/virtual environment, unless you mean something like vmware/vbox, which kinda makes this whole thing moot haha since the idea was to get Photoshop working as native as possible, if I have to virtualize then it's not much different from my current setup, with Photoshop installed on a Windows 10 VM. Office and Photoshop are the only things that force me to keep Windows about, 50% solved with how great Photoshop CS21 performs/stable

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covid19 · 2022-10-14 11:04:29

I'm not seeing any deps on 64bit stuff from the ~70ish ia32 pkgs, would it still be a bad idea? I would also freeze the version of wine with it. But, even if worse case scenario, I can always boot arch from usb and just arch-chroot and then upgrade everything properly, right?
I get that it may not be the best idea, I've had issues in the past where certain ia32 pkgs were updated(not selectively, taking all available) and it led to breaking of Photoshop. Knowing the exact set of pkgs and versions I have at this time all work I basically don't want pacman doing anything with it. Doubt I'll be installing any other software via wine. Don't mind using a VM for MS office.

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V1del · 2022-10-14 11:33:55

Well use it like that, the breakage is likely to be a long way out, but don't be surprised when wine doesn't start due to software incompatibilities you need to do a full update for again.

covid19 · 2022-10-14 13:56:46

Sweet! awesome. If about the worse that can happen is wine breaking, I'm not too worried. Should only affect the one app since I'm not gonna be using any other Windows apps, I maybe use Photoshop 2-3x a week, sometimes less.
Def is nice, almost looks like a native app; I wish those fuckers at Adobe would just give us a real native version

Thanks for the help, much appreciated

seth · 2022-10-14 14:06:02

If about the worse that can happen is wine breaking

More like "every 32bit binary"

Also lib32-mesa depends on mesa and everything will hinge on glibc, so you probably won't have to wait too long…

Scimmia · 2022-10-14 14:07:10

It may just break, it may completely block the update. If that happens, you MUST finish the update before doing other things with pacman, or you risk breaking your entire system.

covid19 · 2022-10-16 00:24:14

Okay, fair enough--I shall leave the repo enabled. Only updates I'm now ignoring (since installation few years ago) are linux, linux-headers, and grub. I update them manually every once in awhile to avoid requiring frequent reboots

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