Attempting to install Unity, but I can't, possible install error

Question

Long story short, I've installed Arch 3 times, but I can't get it to work properly.  I followed the beginner's guide with everything that I thought was correct, but I couldn't get it to work.  Here is every command I did, with a bit of an explanation:
nano /etc/locale.gen
#Un-comment this en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8
#And this de_DE.UTF-8 UTF-8
locale-gen
export LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
ping google.com
#works, good, if not, I run
dhcpcd
#try again, works, good, if not, well it's always worked after that...
#I've decided to wait until I have a GUI to fully setup networking, as long as it works for this boot it's as good as if I fully set it up
#Because I'm dual booting this, I go ahead and pre partition it using Gparted to make sure I'm not screwing myself over
#Now I'm just making the directories again with Arch to make sure there's no conflicts or anything
mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda5
mkfs.ext /dev/sda7
#Now for swap
mkswap /dev/sda6
swapon /dev/sda6
#Using Legacy BIOS, not UEFI, so I will skip those steps
lsblk -f
#checking to make sure everything is correct
mount /dev/sda5 /mnt
mkdir /mnt/home
mount /dev/sda7 /mnt/home
#not messing with mirrors at the moment, I just want to get it working right.
pacstrap -i /mnt base base-devel
genfstab -U -p /mnt >> /mnt/etc/fstab
nano /mnt/etc/fstab
#It always looks good and looks just like I had planned it to look, so I move on.
arch-chroot /mnt /bin/bash
nano /etc/locale.gen
#uncheck this
en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8
locale-gen
echo LANG=en_US.UTF-8 > /etc/locale.conf
export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
#Leaving clocks, time zones, hostnames, etc all default, just running as root until I can get it working as desired, also leaving network still unconfigured, but working (even tried setting up network using
systemctl enable dhcpcd@interface_name.service one time, but that didn't help)
#I then install grub by doing
pacman -S grub
grub-install --target=i386-pc --recheck /dev/sda
pacman -S os-prober
grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
#At this point I am considered done, so I exit, restart, and use a GRUB liveUSB to get back to my Arch install, as for whatever reason grub has been failing to be detected lately, I'll resolve that later though. I want to get my OS working first.
Once I get back into Arch, I open /etc/pacman.conf and add the appropriate entries as listed above several times (aka [Unity-for-Arch] and [Unity-for-Arch-Extras]). I then run
pacman-key --init
pacman-key --populate archlinux
pacman -Syu/Syy
When I run pacman -Syu, I get this error:
error: failed to retrieving file 'Unity-for-Arch.db' from dl.dropbox.com : The requested URL returned error 404 Not Found
error: failed to update Unity-for-Arch (download library error)
Unity-for-Arch-Extra
: : Starting full system upgrade...
there is nothing to do
Not sure what needs to be done next, but if I can't get a simple install of a package that is confirmed working (by a friend), then I guess I'm going to go looking for another distro.  No amount of googling helps me, and I am not sure at all what the issue could be.  If more information is needed, I can get it.  I am hoping that the issue is that I did not install it correctly, can someone confirm that?  Thanks.

Answer 1

Arch is i686 or x86_64. Doesn't matter. Remove the url tags from pacman.conf, it should be "Server = http;//address".
Ubuntu makes it quite hard for other distros to use Unity (they patch their packages a lot), so installing it in Arch might not be that easy. https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=125423&p=106 mentions recent problems with libgee. The only way to have a non-problematic Unity desktop is to use Ubuntu, I guess.
Last edited by lucke (2014-09-27 00:31:13)