I'm a Debian (Stretch 64bit) user for several years and am currently in the process of testing Archlinux (64bit). I have sucessfully installed Juniper Network Connect (VPN) in my Archlinux distribution, using the necessary dependencies available in the multilib repository, and have successfully installed Lotus Notes 9.0.1 in a 32bit chroot environment. However, I would like to understand why it seems not possible to install Lotus Notes in the 64bit environment (at least this is what I've read), only relying on multilib. I mean that most of the Lotus Notes dependencies seem not to be available in the multilib directory.
Some dependencies are available in the multilib repo:
[me@arch ~]$ pacman -Ss libxrender | grep multilib
multilib/lib32-libxrender 0.9.9-1 [installed]
...whereas some others (actually most of the requested ones) are not:
[me@arch ~]$ pacman -Ss bonobo
extra/libbonobo 2.32.1-4
A set of language and system independant CORBA interfaces for creating reusable components
extra/libbonoboui 2.24.5-3
User Interface library for Bonobo
extra/python2-bonobo 2.28.1-9
Python bindings for interacting with Bonobo
Another question: even in my 32bit chroot, some dependencies were not available in the official repos and I had to get them from AUR:
[me@arch /]$ pacman -Ss libgnomeprint
[me@arch /]$ yaourt -Ss libgnomeprint
aur/libgnomeprint 2.18.8-8 [installed] (152) (0.32)
Printing routines for GNOME
aur/libgnomeprintui 2.18.6-5 [installed] (110) (0.00)
User interface library for printing with GNOME
That said, I have been able to install all of my required applications in Arch, but I have the feeling it's a bit dirty (multi-arch environment + 32 bit chroot + AUR) and ideally, I would be more comfortable having everything installed as multi-arch as I used to have in my Debian (no need to maintain a 32bit chroot or have non-official libs).
Any feedback would be highly appreciated. Thank you in advance.
