Pipelight

package pipelight-1:0.2.7.3-1-x86_64 does not have a valid architecture

Asked by Eddy

Hi, I'm trying to install pipelight on a new install of arch.

I've added the entry to /etc/pacman.conf, but whenever I pacman -Sy pipelight I get the following error;

[root@alarmpi ~]# pacman -Sy pipelight
:: Synchronizing package databases...
 core is up to date
 extra is up to date
 community is up to date
 alarm is up to date
 aur is up to date
error: failed retrieving file 'pipelight.db' from repos.fds-team.de : The requested URL returned error: 404 Not Found
error: failed to update pipelight (download library error)
error: failed to prepare transaction (package architecture is not valid)
:: package pipelight-1:0.2.7.3-1-x86_64 does not have a valid architecture
synchronizing filesystem...

I've tried searching around, but I can't find the solution anywhere.

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Sebastian Lackner (slackner) said : 		#1

I haven't seen this error yet so far, but since the download of pipelight.db also seems to fail ...

error: failed retrieving file 'pipelight.db' from repos.fds-team.de : The requested URL returned error: 404 Not Found

... I suspect that there is something wrong with the entry you added to /etc/pacman.conf.

Can you please show the content of your /etc/pacman.conf file (use pastebin.com or a similar service)?

Regards,
Sebastian

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Eddy (edvind-c) said : 		#3

GNU nano 2.2.6 File: /etc/pacman.conf

[community]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

[alarm]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

[aur]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

# An example of a custom package repository. See the pacman manpage for
# tips on creating your own repositories.
#[custom]
#SigLevel = Optional TrustAll
#Server = file:///home/custompkgs

[pipelight]
Server = http://repos.fds-team.de/stable/arch/$arch

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Sebastian Lackner (slackner) said : 		#4

root@192.168.1.87's password:
Welcome to Arch Linux ARM

It seems like you're trying to install pipelight on a machine with an ARM processor. Our repository doesn't contain any packages for the ARM architecture, unfortunately:

Pipelight (and Wine, which is one of the dependencies) only works when running applications compiled for the same processor architecture. Wine is no emulator and thus cannot run any applications written for foreign architectures.
In order to use Pipelight on ARM it would be necessary to have a Silverlight/Flash/Unity... plugin compiled for Windows ARM - but unfortunately Microsoft and all the other plugin developers don't release special versions for the ARM platform.
You might be able to compile Pipelight for ARM, but it will not really help without having any suitable plugin.

We already got similar requests some time ago, and also thought ourself about different possibilities, but unfortunately emulation on ARM devices is too slow for any practical purposes. The most promising way of using Pipelight plugins on ARM is by redirecting the video/sound output from a regular i386 / x86_64 machine, nevertheless there are no solutions that work out of the box yet.

Regards,
Sebastian

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