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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
archlinux32 implements strict anti-bot strategy
linux-firmware >= 20250613.12fe085f-5 upgrade requires manual intervention
With 20250613.12fe085f-5, we split our firmware into several vendor-focused packages. linux-firmware is now an empty package depending on our default set of firmware.
Unfortunately, this coincided with upstream reorganizing the symlink layout of the NVIDIA firmware, resulting in a situation that Pacman cannot handle. When attempting to upgrade from 20250508.788aadc8-2 or earlier, you will see the following errors:
linux-firmware-nvidia: /usr/lib/firmware/nvidia/ad103 exists in filesystem
linux-firmware-nvidia: /usr/lib/firmware/nvidia/ad104 exists in filesystem
linux-firmware-nvidia: /usr/lib/firmware/nvidia/ad106 exists in filesystem
linux-firmware-nvidia: /usr/lib/firmware/nvidia/ad107 exists in filesystem
To progress with the system upgrade, first remove linux-firmware, then reinstall it as part of the upgrade:
# pacman -Rdd linux-firmware
# pacman -Syu linux-firmware
Plasma 6.4.0 will need manual intervention if you are on X11
On Plasma 6.4 the wayland session will be the only one installed when the users does not manually specify kwin-x11.
With the recent split of kwin into kwin-wayland and kwin-x11, users running the old X11 session needs to manually install plasma-x11-session, or they will not be able to login. Currently pacman is not able to figure out your personal setup, and it wouldn't be ok to install plasma-x11-session and kwin-x11 for every one using Plasma.
tldr: Install plasma-x11-session if you are still using x11
Transition to the new WoW64 wine and wine-staging
We are transitioning the wine and wine-staging package to a pure wow64 build. This change removes the dependency on the multilib repository for wine and wine-staging.
The main reason for this is to align with upstream Wine development, which simplifies packaging and the dependency chain.
Potential Issues:
- OpenGL Performance: A known limitation of the new WoW64 mode is reduced performance for 32-bit applications that use OpenGL directly
- Breaking Changes: Existing 32-bit prefixes needs to be recreated
If you are facing issues with 32 bit prefixes, please recreate these and reinstall the application.
Older News
- 2025-04-17
- Valkey to replace Redis in the [extra] Repository
- 2025-02-17
- Cleaning up old repositories
- 2025-02-03
- Glibc 2.41 corrupting Discord installation
- 2025-01-16
- Critical rsync security release 3.4.0
- 2024-11-28
- pacman -Suy results in "invalid or corrupted package"
- 2024-11-19
- Providing a license for package sources
- 2024-09-14
- Manual intervention for pacman 7.0.0 and local repositories required
- 2024-07-01
- The sshd service needs to be restarted after upgrading to openssh-9.8p1
- 2024-03-31
- xz backdoor in Archlinux32
- 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
- error while loading shared libraries: libicui18n.so.68
- 2022-01-07
- nss 3.73 crashes firefox
Recent Updates (more)
| gettext 0.25-1.0 | i686 |
| pinentry-bemenu 0.13.0-2.3 | i686 |
| pacutils 0.15.0-1.0 | i686 |
| gettext 0.25-1.0 | pentium4 |
| pinentry-bemenu 0.13.0-2.3 | pentium4 |
| pacutils 0.15.0-1.0 | pentium4 |
| libp11-kit 0.25.5-1.0 | i686 |
| p11-kit 0.25.5-1.0 | i686 |
| p11-kit-docs 0.25.5-1.0 | i686 |
| libp11-kit 0.25.5-1.0 | pentium4 |
| p11-kit 0.25.5-1.0 | pentium4 |
| p11-kit-docs 0.25.5-1.0 | pentium4 |
| gpgme-1 1.24.3-4.1 | i686 |
| gpgme 2.0.0-1.2 | i686 |
| libassuan 3.0.0-1.2 | i686 |