32 bit Libraries are they safe to remove?

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I have the following 32 bit Libraries installed. To the best of my knowledge I have no need for them, and was not even aware I had installed them… I don’t, as far as I know have any software that requires them

On second thoughts I think that may have happened when I installed WINE to test an music production related app that is Windows only ( I forgot).

So hold that thought.

[tracy@daphne ~]$ pamac list | grep lib32
lib32-alsa-lib                     1.2.13-1                     multilib  1.0 MB
lib32-alsa-plugins                 1.2.12-1                     multilib  281.4 kB
lib32-brotli                       1.1.0-1                      multilib  898.1 kB
lib32-bzip2                        1.0.8-4                      multilib  76.0 kB
lib32-curl                         8.12.1-1                     multilib  812.7 kB
lib32-dbus                         1.16.0-1                     multilib  331.5 kB
lib32-e2fsprogs                    1.47.2-1                     multilib  545.4 kB
lib32-expat                        2.6.4-1                      multilib  178.0 kB
lib32-flac                         1.5.0-1                      multilib  455.6 kB
lib32-freetype2                    2.13.3-3                     multilib  794.9 kB
lib32-gcc-libs                     14.2.1+r753+g1cd744a6828f-1  core      118.8 MB
lib32-glib2                        2.82.5-1                     multilib  3.8 MB
lib32-glibc                        2.41+r9+ga900dbaf70f0-1      core      19.2 MB
lib32-harfbuzz                     10.4.0-1                     multilib  2.6 MB
lib32-icu                          76.1-1                       multilib  38.1 MB
lib32-json-c                       0.18-1                       multilib  79.4 kB
lib32-keyutils                     1.6.3-2                      multilib  22.0 kB
lib32-krb5                         1.21.3-1                     multilib  2.2 MB
lib32-libasyncns                   1:0.8+r3+g68cd5af-3          multilib  22.0 kB
lib32-libcanberra                  1:0.30+r2+gc0620e4-3         multilib  238.2 kB
lib32-libcap                       2.71-1                       multilib  96.9 kB
lib32-libdrm                       2.4.124-1                    multilib  369.6 kB
lib32-libelf                       0.192-2                      multilib  2.6 MB
lib32-libffi                       3.4.7-1                      multilib  35.6 kB
lib32-libgcrypt                    1.11.0-1                     multilib  1.1 MB
lib32-libglvnd                     1.7.0-1                      multilib  1.4 MB
lib32-libgpg-error                 1.51-1                       multilib  157.4 kB
lib32-libidn2                      2.3.7-1                      multilib  128.5 kB
lib32-libldap                      2.6.9-1                      multilib  409.9 kB
lib32-libltdl                      2.5.4+r1+gbaa1fe41-1         multilib  38.3 kB
lib32-libnghttp2                   1.64.0-1                     multilib  171.9 kB
lib32-libnghttp3                   1.8.0-1                      multilib  154.9 kB
lib32-libnsl                       2.0.1-1                      multilib  30.3 kB
lib32-libogg                       1.3.5-2                      multilib  48.5 kB
lib32-libpciaccess                 0.18.1-1                     multilib  42.6 kB
lib32-libpng                       1.6.47-1                     multilib  285.6 kB
lib32-libpsl                       0.21.5-1                     multilib  71.2 kB
lib32-libpulse                     17.0+r43+g3e2bb8a1e-1        multilib  898.6 kB
lib32-libsndfile                   1.2.2-3                      multilib  595.2 kB
lib32-libssh2                      1.11.0-2                     multilib  276.7 kB
lib32-libtirpc                     1.3.6-1                      multilib  182.1 kB
lib32-libunistring                 1.2-1                        multilib  1.8 MB
lib32-libva                        2.22.0-1                     multilib  288.3 kB
lib32-libva-intel-driver           2.4.1-2                      multilib  8.2 MB
lib32-libvorbis                    1.3.7-4                      multilib  768.5 kB
lib32-libx11                       1.8.11-1                     multilib  1.3 MB
lib32-libxau                       1.0.11-2                     multilib  13.8 kB
lib32-libxcb                       1.17.0-1                     multilib  1.1 MB
lib32-libxcrypt                    4.4.38-1                     multilib  165.7 kB
lib32-libxdmcp                     1.1.5-1                      multilib  22.0 kB
lib32-libxext                      1.3.6-1                      multilib  84.3 kB
lib32-libxfixes                    6.0.1-2                      multilib  22.0 kB
lib32-libxml2                      2.13.6-2                     multilib  1.3 MB
lib32-libxshmfence                 1.3.2-2                      multilib  13.8 kB
lib32-libxxf86vm                   1.1.5-2                      multilib  22.1 kB
lib32-llvm-libs                    1:19.1.7-1                   multilib  162.2 MB
lib32-lm_sensors                   1:3.6.0.r41.g31d1f125-3      multilib  54.6 kB
lib32-mesa                         1:24.3.4-1                   multilib  102.9 MB
lib32-mesa-utils                   9.0.0-2                      multilib  467.1 kB
lib32-ncurses                      6.5-1                        multilib  589.9 kB
lib32-openssl                      1:3.4.1-1                    multilib  5.1 MB
lib32-opus                         1.5.2-1                      multilib  5.4 MB
lib32-pam                          1.6.1-1                      multilib  834.4 kB
lib32-pcre2                        10.45-1                      multilib  1.9 MB
lib32-spirv-tools                  1:1.4.304.1-2                multilib  6.0 MB
lib32-systemd                      257.3-1                      multilib  2.6 MB
lib32-tdb                          1.4.12-1                     multilib  87.7 kB
lib32-util-linux                   2.40.4-1                     multilib  1.1 MB
lib32-vulkan-icd-loader            1.4.304.1-1                  multilib  578.6 kB
lib32-vulkan-intel                 1:24.3.4-1                   multilib  34.5 MB
lib32-vulkan-nouveau               1:24.3.4-1                   multilib  17.2 MB
lib32-vulkan-radeon                1:24.3.4-1                   multilib  12.8 MB
lib32-wayland                      1.23.1-1                     multilib  163.9 kB
lib32-xcb-util-keysyms             0.4.1-2                      multilib  13.8 kB
lib32-xz                           5.6.4-1                      multilib  218.9 kB
lib32-zlib                         1.3.1-2                      multilib  92.8 kB
lib32-zstd                         1.5.7-2                      multilib  917.7 kB
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Yes, they are safe to remove, but bear in mind that not everything will be removed, because the gcc package itself as packaged by upstream contains both 64-bit and 32-bit stuff. :point_down:

[nx-74205:/dev/pts/3][/home/aragorn]
[aragorn] >  ls -lh /usr/lib32/
total 7.4M
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  916 Feb  8 11:41 libasan_preinit.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  169 Feb  8 11:41 libgomp.spec
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  162 Feb  8 11:41 libitm.spec
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  362 Feb  8 11:41 libsanitizer.spec
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5.5M Feb  8 11:41 libstdc++.a
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 879K Feb  8 11:41 libstdc++exp.a
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 629K Feb  8 11:41 libstdc++fs.a
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 323K Feb  8 11:41 libsupc++.a

Be sure to then also disable or remove the multilib repo in /etc/pacman.conf.

No, multilib is still enabled by default in Manjaro. Any freshly installed Manjaro system comes with the 32-bit libraries installed out-of-the-box, and with 32-bit compatibility enabled in the kernel.

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those lib32 packages successfully removed with no errors. Multilib commented out in /etc/pacman.conf

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It should also save you some bandwidth upon the next bundled update. :wink:

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It has already saved me disc space.

I repeated the process on my partner’s 2 in 1 as well. She doesn’t use anything that requires those libraries, either.

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