Nvidia-inst wants to remove 32-bit libraries

[ajgringo619]

I decided to switch to the nvidia-open-dkms drivers. When I ran nvidia-inst --test, it displayed this:

$ nvidia-inst --test
2025-04-21 15:01:59: Note: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation AD107 [GeForce RTX 4060] [10de:2882] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
06:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation TU116 [GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER] [10de:21c4] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
2025-04-21 15:01:59: Info: nvidia-inst version 25.4.8-1
2025-04-21 15:01:59: Info: Command line: nvidia-inst --test
2025-04-21 15:01:59: Info: Selected mode: nvidia (Nvidia's open source)
2025-04-21 15:02:02: Info: Removing packages: lib32-nvidia-utils
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COMMANDS TO RUN:
    pacman -Rs --noconfirm --noprogressbar --nodeps lib32-nvidia-utils nvidia-dkms
    pacman -Syuq --noconfirm --noprogressbar --needed nvidia-open-dkms

Since I run steam, this was a non-starter. Manually running the above commands without lib32-nvidia-utils worked as expected. Is this a bug, or a known limitation?

[Bink]

Run it with the --32 option.

 --32                    Install also support for 32-bit apps. [multilib] in /etc/pacman.conf must be enabled.

As you’d like to try the official open-source driver, you should also use the -o option.
Like this:

nvidia-inst --test --32 -o

For the full list of options, run:

nvidia-inst --help

[ajgringo619]

Thanks so much for this. I didn’t need the -o switch, the script correctly detected that my GPU is supported.

[MichelN]

I assume the -o stands for open drivers

[Magus]

Did my regular evening yay and just noticed there’s an update for nvidia-inst ^^.
@manuel made a commit for nvidia-inst an hour ago, I guess it is to resolve this regression.

Thank you for the patch :3

[manuel]

Seemed reasonable for nvidia-inst to assume 32-bit support is still needed when

• multilib is enabled and
• lib32-nvidia-utils is installed