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Creating a 32-bit Arch Linux chroot

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Download an iso
mkdir mounted-iso mounted-root root live
sudo mount -o loop archlinux-2020.06.01-i686.iso mounted-iso/
sudo mount -t squashfs mounted-iso/arch/i686/airootfs.sfs mounted-root/
sudo cp -av mounted-root/. root/
sudo umount mounted-root
sudo umount mounted-iso
sudo mount -o bind root live/
sudo arch-chroot live bash

inside the chroot

setarch i686
Rank /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
pacman -Sy
pacman -Scc
pacman-key --init && pacman-key --populate archlinux32 && pacman-key --refresh-keys
pacman -S archlinux32-keyring
pacman -Syu
pacman -S base-devel gtk3 # etc.

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robertkirkman commented Jul 26, 2023 •

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thank you very good it works i got some package conflicts with pacman -Syu (archlinux32-2023.03.02-i686.iso)but that is probably an Arch Linux 32 issue, this still worked for what I needed