[Archlinux] How to fix "gcc: removing gcc-libs breaks dependency 'gcc-libs=7.1.1-2'"

Hi everyone, I was crossing this issue this morning so let’s fix it!

First of all this issue is appearing because I enabled the multilib support in my arch config (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/multilib). To fix this problem you need to have all your gcc packages using multilib or none of them, not both. First let’s find out which packages you need to remove/install with the multilib support. Run:

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    sudo pacman -Qs gcc

You should have an output like:

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local/gcc 6.3.1-2 (base-devel)
  The GNU Compiler Collection - C and C++ frontends
local/gcc-libs-multilib 6.3.1-2
  Runtime libraries shipped by GCC for multilib
local/lib32-gcc-libs 6.3.1-2
  Runtime libraries shipped by GCC (32-bit)
local/libgsystem 2015.2+4+gd606be
  Copylib for system service modules using GLib with GCC

In my case you can see that gcc itself is not multilib. Let’s install the multilib version of it.

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pacman -S gcc-multilib

Et voilà! Problem solved :) 2ez