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Eschatokyrios

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Registered: 2007-09-22

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pacman with 32 bit packages?

A chroot seems like an awful waste of space, especially since I would only need it for ZSNES, basically. I don't mind installing 32 bit libs, the "cleanliness" argument nonwithstanding. So I'd like to be able to just "sudo pacman -Sy zsnes", and have pacman just install every 32 bit library that 32 bit zsnes happens to need. But zsnes, and a few other programs with no 64 bit version (opera and wine and a few others I can think of) simply don't show up in the listing. Is there a way to make them do so?

Noneus

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From: Munich

Registered: 2006-09-26

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Re: pacman with 32 bit packages?

Opera is available in testing in 64bit.

Wine is available through AUR. So are other apps like skype and google earth. Just do a search for bin32.

There is an SNES emulator in 64bit called 'snes9x'.

neowolf

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From: North Carolina

Registered: 2008-01-27

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Re: pacman with 32 bit packages?

Also if you'd prefer having a nice gui, check out aur for snes9x-gtk. The PKGBUILD needs tweaking but it runs fine in 64-bit. If you've got a beefy system you also may want to look into bsnes. Though emphasis on beefy. Cycle exact emulators are exponentially more demanding.

Eschatokyrios

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Registered: 2007-09-22

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Re: pacman with 32 bit packages?

ZSNES is a requirement, I have a lot of zsnes save state files I want to use and I just like the program better than Snes9x. I'm using the 64bit opera now, it's buggy and I want to downgrade until a stable version comes out. Besides, in principle I don't think there's any reason why I can't do that with pacman, I just don't know how, and I want to for my own knowledge if nothing else.

skottish

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Registered: 2006-06-16

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Re: pacman with 32 bit packages?

A chroot seems like an awful waste of space, especially since I would only need it for ZSNES, basically. I don't mind installing 32 bit libs, the "cleanliness" argument nonwithstanding. So I'd like to be able to just "sudo pacman -Sy zsnes", and have pacman just install every 32 bit library that 32 bit zsnes happens to need. But zsnes, and a few other programs with no 64 bit version (opera and wine and a few others I can think of) simply don't show up in the listing. Is there a way to make them do so?

No, there's not. Arch doesn't have an official mutli-lib setup. It makes things very complicated.