Follow the procedure described in FS32#365 .
A simple, lightweight distribution for 32-bit CPUs
You've reached the website for Arch Linux 32, the community maintained continuation of 32-bit support for Arch Linux, a lightweight and flexible Linux® distribution that tries to Keep It Simple.
Currently we have official packages optimized for the i686 and pentium4 architectures. Also most(ly) non-graphical packages are available for i486, too. Have a look at the required cpu flags to decide which architecture is the right one for you. Most packages from Arch Linux's community-operated package repository are also compatible with Arch Linux 32.
Installation media which boot on i686 can be found here.
Join us on #archlinux32 IRC channel on Libera, check out our forums or subscribe to the mailing list to get your feet wet. Also glance through the Arch Wiki if you want to learn more about upstream Arch.
Latest News
pacman -Suy results in "invalid or corrupted package"
Providing a license for package sources
Arch Linux hasn't had a license for any package sources (such as PKGBUILD files) in the past, which is potentially problematic. Providing a license will preempt that uncertainty.
In RFC 40 we agreed to change all package sources to be licensed under the very liberal 0BSD license. This change will not limit what you can do with package sources. Check out the RFC for more on the rationale and prior discussion.
Before we make this change, we will provide contributors with a way to voice any objections they might have. Starting on 2024-11-19, over the course of a week, contributors will receive a single notification email listing all their contributions.
- If you receive an email and agree to this change, there is no action required from your side.
- If you do not agree, please reply to the email and we'll find a solution together.
If you contributed to Arch Linux packages before but didn't receive an email, please contact us at package-sources-licensing@archlinux.org.
Manual intervention for pacman 7.0.0 and local repositories required
With the release of version 7.0.0 pacman has added support for downloading packages as a separate user with dropped privileges.
For users with local repos however this might imply that the download
user does not have access to the files in question, which can be fixed
by assigning the files and folder to the alpm group and ensuring the
executable bit (+x) is set on the folders in question.
$ chown :alpm -R /path/to/local/repo
Remember to merge the .pacnew files to apply the new default.
Pacman also introduced a change to improve checksum stability for
git repos that utilize .gitattributes files. This might require a
one-time checksum change for PKGBUILDs that use git sources.
The sshd service needs to be restarted after upgrading to openssh-9.8p1
After upgrading to openssh-9.8p1, the existing SSH daemon will be unable to accept new connections (see https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/openssh/-/issues/5).
When upgrading remote hosts, please make sure to restart the sshd service
using systemctl try-restart sshd right after upgrading.
We are evaluating the possibility to automatically apply a restart of the sshd service on upgrade in a future release of the openssh-9.8p1 package.
Older News
- 2024-04-15
- Arch Linux 2024 Leader Election Results
- 2024-04-07
- Increasing the default vm.max_map_count value
- 2024-03-31
- xz backdoor in Archlinux32
- 2024-03-29
- The xz package has been backdoored
- 2024-03-04
- mkinitcpio hook migration and early microcode
- 2024-01-09
- Making dbus-broker our default D-Bus daemon
- 2023-12-04
- Bugtracker migration to GitLab completed
- 2023-11-02
- Incoming changes in JDK / JRE 21 packages may require manual intervention
- 2023-07-28
- Shim packages required for 'icu'
- 2023-06-24
- New package signing keys
- 2023-05-23
- Git Migration
- 2023-05-16
- upstream git migration
- 2023-04-29
- In case of key problems
- 2023-03-31
- Dropping Haskell
- 2022-11-17
- OpenSSL 3.0.7
- 2022-10-30
- systemd 251.2 breaks logins
- 2022-05-12
- CA certificates file is empty
- 2022-02-01
- ISO 2022.02.01 available
- 2022-01-07
- nss 3.73 crashes firefox
- 2022-01-07
- Warning about upgrading to zstd 1.5.1
- 2022-01-07
- error while loading shared libraries: libicui18n.so.68
Recent Updates (more)
| act 0.2.70-1.0 | i686 |
| bash-completion 2.15.0-1.0 | i686 |
| nwg-dock-hyprland 0.4.0-1.0 | i686 |
| dtkcommon 5.7.2-1.0 | i686 |
| nwg-drawer 0.6.0-1.0 | i686 |
| stress-ng 0.18.07-1.0 | i686 |
| benchmark 1.9.1-1.0 | i686 |
| mingw-w64-binutils 2.43-1.0 | i686 |
| mingw-w64-headers 12.0.0-1.0 | i686 |
| byacc 20240109-2.0 | i686 |
| cockpit-files 13-1.0 | i686 |
| diffstat 1.67-2.0 | i686 |
| bc 1.07.1-5.0 | i486 |
| datamash 1.8-2.0 | i486 |
| bash-completion 2.15.0-1.0 | i486 |