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 architecture. Also most(ly) non-graphical packages are available for i486, too. Most packages from Arch Linux's community-operated package repository are also compatible with Arch Linux 32.
Instructions for the transition from Arch Linux to Arch Linux 32 can be found here.
Installation media which boot on x86_64 and i686 can be found here.
Join us on #archlinux32 IRC channel on Freenode, 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.
libutf8proc>=2.1.1-3 update requires manual intervention
The libutf8proc package prior to version 2.1.1-3 had an incorrect soname link. This has been fixed in 2.1.1-3, so the upgrade will need to overwrite the untracked soname link created by ldconfig. If you get an error
libutf8proc: /usr/lib/libutf8proc.so.2 exists in filesystem
when updating, use
pacman -Suy --overwrite usr/lib/libutf8proc.so.2
to perform the upgrade.
Due to the SONAME of /usr/lib/libmozjs-52.so not matching its file name, ldconfig created an untracked file /usr/lib/libmozjs-52.so.0. This is now fixed and both files are present in the package.
To pass the upgrade, remove /usr/lib/libmozjs-52.so.0 prior to upgrading.
The new version of glibc removes support for NIS and NIS+. The default
/etc/nsswitch.conf file provided by filesystem package already
reflects this change. Please make sure to merge pacnew file if it exists
prior to upgrade.
NIS functionality can still be enabled by installing libnss_nis
package. There is no replacement for NIS+ in the official repositories.
pam 1.3.0-2 no longer ships pam_unix2 module and pam_unix_*.so
compatibility symlinks. Before upgrading, review PAM configuration files
in the /etc/pam.d directory and replace removed modules with
pam_unix.so. Users of pam_unix2 should also reset their passwords
after ...
The zita-resampler 1.6.0-1 package was missing a library symlink that has been readded in 1.6.0-2. If you installed 1.6.0-1, ldconfig would have created this symlink at install time, and it will conflict with the one included in 1.6.0-2. In that case, remove /usr/lib/libzita-resampler.so.1 manually before updating.
Following 9 months of deprecation period, support for the i686 architecture effectively ends today. By the end of November, i686 packages will be removed from our mirrors and later from the packages archive. The [multilib] repository is not affected.
For users unable to upgrade their hardware to x86_64, an alternative is a community maintained fork named Arch Linux 32. See their website for details on migrating existing installations.