For now install the 'libffi33' shim package to make it work again.
Please also report broken packages here or in the forums.
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.
Instructions for the transition from Arch Linux to Arch Linux 32 can be found here.
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
libffi.so.7: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
pacman upgrade brings pentium4 automatically for via processors
Until pacman < 6.0.0,
Architecture = autoin /etc/pacman.conf did properly switch from i686 to pentium4 only on amd and intel CPUs. With pacman 6.0.0, this now also works on via (and probably also all other) CPUs. If you are running archlinux32 on any such CPU, please follow the i686 -> pentium4 transition instructions outlined here after upgrading pacman.
Sorting out old password hashes
Starting with libxcrypt 4.4.21, weak password hashes (such as MD5 and
SHA1) are no longer accepted for new passwords. Users that still have
their passwords stored with a weak hash will be asked to update their
password on their next login.
If the login just fails (for example from display manager) switch to a virtual terminal (Ctrl-Alt-F2) and log in there once.
error while loading shared libraries: libicui18n.so.68
Please note, that this is meant as a last resort if you need the software to work right now.
The correct way is to bother us devs (on irc or the bug tracker) to recompile the broken packages.
Older News
- 2021-05-24
- Move of official IRC channels to libera.chat
- 2021-04-01
- Installation medium with installer
- 2021-02-19
- Moving to Zstandard images by default on mkinitcpio
- 2021-02-09
- glibc 2.33 ISA mitigation and disabled libseccomp
- 2021-02-03
- Chromium losing Sync support in early March
- 2021-01-28
- PHP 8.0 and PHP 7 legacy packages are available
- 2021-01-14
- Manual pages indexing service
- 2020-12-31
- Arch Linux mailing list id changes
- 2020-11-11
- dhcpcd may(?) fail to get ipv4 address
- 2020-11-08
- plasma-workspace needs manual intervention
- 2020-11-01
- Accessible installation medium
- 2020-10-23
- libtraceevent>=5.9-1 update requires manual intervention
- 2020-09-01
- Watch out for missing /usr/lib/libcrypt.so.2
- 2020-08-22
- PAM issues
- 2020-02-22
- Update to glibc 2.31 works now, but requires libseccomp 2.4.1-4.0
- 2020-02-14
- Recovered forum posts
- 2020-01-25
- ca-certificates-mozilla update breaking basic TLS functionality
- 2019-12-29
- conflicting files between xorgproto and libxp
- 2019-11-23
- SPI associated project
- 2019-11-14
- infrastructure problems
- 2019-05-29
- new pacman will auto-install pentium4 packages
Recent Updates (more)
| nextcloud-app-mail 1.11.0-1.0 | i486 |
| python-xapian-haystack 3.0.1-1.0 | i486 |
| libpipeline 1.5.4-1.0 | i486 |
| nextcloud-app-calendar 1:3.0.0-1.0 | i486 |
| python-fpylll 0.5.6-5.0 | i686 |
| python-pplpy 0.8.7-3.0 | i686 |
| nextcloud-app-calendar 1:3.0.0-1.0 | i686 |
| python-xapian-haystack 3.0.1-1.0 | i686 |
| nextcloud-app-mail 1.11.0-1.0 | i686 |
| mailman 2.1.38-1.0 | i686 |
| linux-olpc-xo1-headers 5.15.4.arch1-1.0 | i686 |
| linux-olpc-xo1-docs 5.15.4.arch1-1.0 | i686 |
| linux-pae-docs 5.15.4-1.0 | i686 |
| linux-pae 5.15.4-1.0 | i686 |
| linux-olpc-xo1 5.15.4.arch1-1.0 | i686 |