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thebrok2

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Registered: 2011-07-13

Posts: 2

[Solved] libpng12-1.2.44-1-i686 does not have a valid architecture

I am trying to install google-talkplugin from AUR. I have Arch Linux 64-bit installed. I have gone into /etc/pacman.conf and enabled the multilib repo but am running into a single dependency issue.

AUR Link: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=40056

Part of pacman.conf

# 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

However the only dependency I am missing is  libpng12.

Output of makepkg

==> Making package: google-talkplugin 2.1.7.0-1 (Tue Jul 12 20:37:21 CDT 2011)
==> Checking runtime dependencies...
==> Missing Dependencies:
  -> libpng12>=1.2.13
==> Checking buildtime dependencies...
==> ERROR: Could not resolve all dependencies.

When I try and install it I get the following message.

pacman -S libpng12

error: failed to prepare transaction (package architecture is not valid)
:: package libpng12-1.2.44-1-i686 does not have a valid architecture

Am I missing something here? Is there any way to work around this? Any help would be greatly apprceciated. Thanks!

Last edited by thebrok2 (2011-07-13 03:09:16)

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: [Solved] libpng12-1.2.44-1-i686 does not have a valid architecture

http://www.archlinux.org/packages/?sort … =&limit=50
libpng12 is not in the repos. You're probably using some unofficial user repositories that only have the 32-bit version.
Install it from AUR http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=33795 or

[archstuff]
# AUR's most voted packages
Server = http://archstuff.vs169092.vserver.de/$arch

(do you want the lib32-* version?)

Last edited by karol (2011-07-13 01:54:04)

thebrok2

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Registered: 2011-07-13

Posts: 2

Re: [Solved] libpng12-1.2.44-1-i686 does not have a valid architecture

That was the missing link piece of the puzzle. I am a rookie in the arch world and didn't know i could search like the repos like that. Applied the AUR and was all set. Thank you for the help! My problem is now resolved.