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.
If you update, make sure you have pacman-static installed beforehand from the AUR.
Then do a pacman -Sy libxml2 libxml2-legacy gpgme gpgme-1 partial update, followed by pacman-static -Syyu.
This ensures that you have the new and old versions of libxml2 and gpgme around.
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Thus we are implementing a strict anti-bot strategy using Anubis and Fail2ban to keep the site available - mainly for humans.
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
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.
| docbook-sgml 4.5-10.0 | i486 |
| docbook-sgml31 3.1-7.0 | i486 |
| hunspell-el 0.9-11.0 | i486 |
| quicklisp 20150128-3.0 | i486 |
| unicode-emoji 17.0-1.0 | i486 |
| opengl-man-pages 20240713-2.0 | i486 |
| lua-dkjson 2.8-3.0 | i486 |
| lua51-dkjson 2.8-3.0 | i486 |
| lua52-dkjson 2.8-3.0 | i486 |
| lua53-dkjson 2.8-3.0 | i486 |
| nltk-data 3.9.1-3.0 | i486 |
| ruby-slim 5.2.1-5.0 | i486 |
| nuklear 4.12.7-1.0 | i486 |
| nano 8.5-1.0 | i686 |
| libhangul 0.2.0-1.0 | i686 |