Its not required unless you want to install applications which depend on it - WINE for example is such a case. The Garuda settings manager also depends on lib32 stuff so a default installation has it enabled
I do want to recommend Garuda to friends and family but it ain't maintenance free. Why 32 bit repo was disabled if 32bit apps are in use? I didn't tweak anything, all is out of the box. Such stupid errors are a deal breakers.
new pacman.conf came with it disabled. I did remove it in only in a sense that I said "YES" to a question if I want to overwrite the old one. I did not manually edit it out. but it is the easiest blame the user
sudo pacman -Syu
[sudo] password for yoda:
warning: config file /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist, line 11: directive 'Server' in section 'options' not recognized
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warning: config file /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist, line 14: directive 'Server' in section 'options' not recognized
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warning: config file /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist, line 17: directive 'Server' in section 'options' not recognized
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warning: config file /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist, line 20: directive 'Server' in section 'options' not recognized
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warning: config file /etc/pacman.conf, line 88: directive 'enable the multilib repositories as required here.'
in section 'community' not recognized.
:: Synchronizing package databases...
core is up to date
extra is up to date
community is up to date
:: Starting full system upgrade...
warning: electron9: local (9.4.4-2) is newer than community (9.4.4-1)
:: Replace libcanberra-pulse with extra/libcanberra? [Y/n]
I t tries to follow some advices by commenting or uncommenting stuff and the result is now :
# /etc/pacman.conf
#
# See the pacman.conf(5) manpage for option and repository directives
#
# GENERAL OPTIONS
#
[options]
# The following paths are commented out with their default values listed.
# If you wish to use different paths, uncomment and update the paths.
#RootDir = /
#DBPath = /var/lib/pacman/
#CacheDir = /var/cache/pacman/pkg/
#LogFile = /var/log/pacman.log
#GPGDir = /etc/pacman.d/gnupg/
#HookDir = /etc/pacman.d/hooks/
HoldPkg = pacman glibc
#XferCommand = /usr/bin/curl -L -C - -f -o %o %u
#XferCommand = /usr/bin/wget --passive-ftp -c -O %o %u
#CleanMethod = KeepInstalled
Architecture = auto
# Pacman won't upgrade packages listed in IgnorePkg and members of IgnoreGroup
#IgnorePkg =
#IgnoreGroup =
#NoUpgrade =
#NoExtract =
# Misc options
#UseSyslog
#Color
#NoProgressBar
CheckSpace
#VerbosePkgLists
#ParallelDownloads = 5
# By default, pacman accepts packages signed by keys that its local keyring
# trusts (see pacman-key and its man page), as well as unsigned packages.
SigLevel = Required DatabaseOptional
LocalFileSigLevel = Optional
#RemoteFileSigLevel = Required
# NOTE: You must run `pacman-key --init` before first using pacman; the local
# keyring can then be populated with the keys of all official Arch Linux
# packagers with `pacman-key --populate archlinux`.
#
# REPOSITORIES
# - can be defined here or included from another file
# - pacman will search repositories in the order defined here
# - local/custom mirrors can be added here or in separate files
# - repositories listed first will take precedence when packages
# have identical names, regardless of version number
# - URLs will have $repo replaced by the name of the current repo
# - URLs will have $arch replaced by the name of the architecture
#
# Repository entries are of the format:
# [repo-name]
# Server = ServerName
# Include = IncludePath
#
# The header [repo-name] is crucial - it must be present and
# uncommented to enable the repo.
#
# The testing repositories are disabled by default. To enable, uncomment the
# repo name header and Include lines. You can add preferred servers immediately
# after the header, and they will be used before the default mirrors.
#[testing]
# Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
[core]
# Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
[extra]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
#[community-testing]
#Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
[community]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
# If you want to run 32 bit applications on your x86_64 system,
enable the multilib repositories as required here.
#[multilib-testing]
#Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
#[multilib]
#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
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