Arch Linux 32

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Release Info

The image can be burned to a CD, mounted as an ISO file, or be directly written to a USB stick using a utility like dd. It is intended for new installations only; an existing Arch Linux system can always be updated with pacman -Syu.

• Current Release: 2022.05.01
• Included Kernel: 5.17.3.arch1-1.0
• ISO Size (i686 only): 711.0 MB
• ISO Size (dual bootable): 1365.2 MB

Existing Arch32 Users

If you are an existing Arch32 user, there is no need to download a new ISO to update your existing system. You may be looking for an updated mirrorlist instead.

Package Archive

Older versions of packages can be found in the Package Archive. It works similar to the Arch Linux Archive which is documented in the ArchWiki.

Transition from Archlinux to Archlinux32

If you plan to move from Archlinux to Archlinux32, follow these steps:

• Put Server=https://archive.archlinux32.org/repos/2020/01/01/$arch/$repo as only mirror into /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist.
  • Note, that it is not necessary to use the archive, if one uses a recent pacman-static to provide zstd support. See "Fixing Broken Pacman" below for details on how to obtain pacman-static.
• Execute pacman -Syy archlinux32-keyring-transition to install our keyring transition package signed by one of the x86_64 archlinux devs.
• Run pacman -Syuu to update to a state, when pacman was capable of installing zstd-compressed packages.
• Put any mirror from our mirrorlist into /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist.
• Run pacman -Syuu for a full transition to the most recent state.
  • Note, that packages found in your package cache won't match the signatures from Archlinux32 - either allow pacman to delete these cached packages or run pacman -Sc to clean your cache before you start and after you finish upgrading.

Fixing Broken Pacman

If pacman is unable to work properly (due to partial upgrade, broken libraries, missing compression support, etc.), there are two possibilities to fix it:

• Boot a recent live medium, mount the broken system on /mnt and use pacman --sysroot /mnt ... to reinstall/update the broken/outdated packages.
• Install pacman-static (either from the AUR before breaking the system or the extracted binary compiled by Eli Schwartz if your system is already broken) and use pacman-static in place of pacman to reinstall/update the broken/outdated packages.

Fixing Broken Keyring(s)

Sometimes an ISO contains broken keys. This can easily be fixed by updating your keyring with pacman -S archlinux-keyring archlinux32-keyring and then pacman-key --init, pacman-key populate archlinux archlinux32 and pacman-key --refresh. Eventually this is something you want to do in the chroot of your installation (arch-chroot /mnt).

BitTorrent Download (recommended)

If you can spare the bytes, please leave the client open after your download is finished, so you can seed it back to others. A web-seed capable client is recommended for fastest download speeds.

• Magnet link for 2022.05.01 (i686 only)
• Magnet link for 2021.02.01 (dual bootable)
• Torrent for 2022.05.01 (i686 only)
• Torrent for 2021.02.01 (dual bootable)

HTTP Direct Downloads

Install images can be downloaded via HTTP from the mirror sites. Please ensure the download image matches the checksum from the md5sums or sha512sums file in the same directory as the image.

Checksums

File integrity checksums for the latest releases can be found below:

• PGP signature (i686 only)
• PGP signature (dual bootable)
• PGP Key: 16194A82231E9EF823562181C8E8F5A0AF9BA7E7
• MD5 (i686 only): a9fe6f9c0ea07c410dc61d15b0627672
• MD5 (dual bootable):a9786e209ed2d2cf1687a6c64f52881e
• SHA512 (i686 only): 7fadd3333745555fb42658efadd94bd7a18f28187208f0101b8b77cf6998a44d1554adf4c66adf1c2ccefa48f14713d5172eb19357526364c5f208883d89ead3
• SHA512 (dual bootable):62c36f22d25cfc61c97db9b73a39daad1927f71a0d22bdc06bd877e3558a5dcace9b8d58335a5e8352aea6ef242be6a947646ac53b1d0718f0cf336976d53880