Pacman on PPC [SOLVED]

e1fjl · 2010-12-07 18:23:12

Hi again,

I've got ArchPPC working on Powermac G5 but when I pacman anything I get: error ... (package architecture is not valid)

I've tried uncommenting others but all have the same result when running : pacman -Sy sudo

The box is 64bit if that makes any difference?

Cheers

Last edited by e1fjl (2010-12-08 09:38:56)

Allan · 2010-12-07 23:24:27

What do you have set in /etc/pacman.conf for the Architecture option?

e1fjl · 2010-12-08 08:51:21

Its set to auto which equates to ppc64. I assume that's right since that the system I'm on?

Or maybe the 64 is messing it up?

Allan · 2010-12-08 08:58:32

Is that repo for ppc64? I thought they only had ppc packages?

Allan · 2010-12-08 09:11:56

archlinuxppc wrote:

We only support a 32bit userland but kernels are available for various 64bit machines.

So remove Architecture=auto if you are using a different kernel architecture than userland architecture.

e1fjl · 2010-12-08 09:38:43

Cheers Allan. Changed Architecture to ppc rather than ppc64 and all's well now

Many Thanks

Allan · 2010-12-08 10:06:42

Just as an FYI, you will possibly need to use "--arch ppc64" when you install your 64 bit kernel

DaNiMoTh · 2010-12-24 09:23:59

Hi, the kernel is 64 bit but userspace is 32 bit.

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