Help with pacman

Hi everyone
I'm trying to install Arch for 3 days now , partitioning (ok) - connecting to the internet (ok - i configured my wireless and ping google and everything work just fine)
but i can't perform a " pacstrap -i /mnt base base-devel grub2-bios " it shows the " failed retrieving file 'core.db' from ... " message , i did a rankmirror and changed my mirrorlist but it didn't do anything
can anyone help me plz? ( sorry for my English )

jv2112 wrote:
I found this helpful.
http://gotux.net/arch-linux/arch-linux- … tallation/
Please don't do this. Recommending instructions like this is a bad idea for several reasons. First, they go out of date very quickly. Second, instructions like this only work for certain configurations (e.g. bios rather than efi),. Third, they encourage blind copy-pasting which prevents new users learning why they are doing things and increases the chances that they will both break things and have no idea how to fix them.

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[SOLVED, Thanks]Need help with pacman post install

Hi
It took me a bit of time to install arch but i finally did it, turns out i just needed to disable ipv6. Anyway yesterday everything worked fine and now that i try to complete the install by downloading a wm suddenly pacman refuse to download anything, it says it can't synchronise. Can anybody help pls ?
http://www.hostingpics.net/viewer.php?i … roblem.png
Last edited by oozernem (2015-05-09 08:15:51)

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:
Have you tried:
# systemctl start dhcpcd.service
If that brings your connection up, use:
# systemctl enable dhcpcd.service
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Be … uide#Wired
Thanks m8, it fixed it
Thanks to everybody else who replied in the thread.

Need help with pacman

hello
first of all - sorry for my english
i updated pacman some days ago and got many troubles
Part of troubles i was solved, but now i have this errors:
1. sudo pacman -S pidgin-otr / or install curl or something else..
perl-xml-parser: /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/XML/Parser/Encodings/iso-8859-5.enc exists in filesystem
perl-xml-parser: /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/XML/Parser/Encodings/iso-8859-7.enc exists in filesystem
perl-xml-parser: /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/XML/Parser/Encodings/iso-8859-8.enc exists in filesystem
perl-xml-parser: /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/XML/Parser/Encodings/iso-8859-9.enc exists in filesystem
perl-xml-parser: /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/XML/Parser/Encodings/koi8-r.enc exists in filesystem
perl-xml-parser: /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/XML/Parser/Style/Objects.pm exists in filesystem
perl-xml-parser: /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/XML/Parser/Style/Stream.pm exists in filesystem
perl-xml-parser: /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/XML/Parser/Style/Subs.pm exists in filesystem
perl-xml-parser: /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/XML/Parser/Style/Tree.pm exists in filesystem
perl-xml-parser: /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/XML/Parser/Expat/Expat.bs exists in filesystem
perl-xml-parser: /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/XML/Parser/Expat/Expat.so exists in filesystem
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.
2. Notice on each operation:
pacman: /usr/local/lib/libcurl.so.4: no version information available (required by /usr/local/lib/libalpm.so.7)
3. With FORCE: sudo pacman -S pidgin-otr --force
( 3/194) installing glibc [#################################################] 100%
warning: /etc/locale.gen saved as /etc/locale.gen.pacorig
error: extract: not overwriting dir with file lib
error: problem occurred while installing glibc
error: could not commit transaction
error: failed to commit transaction (transaction aborted)
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.
How can i fix it?
uname -a
Linux myhost 3.4.4-2-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun Jun 24 18:59:47 CEST 2012 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Last edited by deex (2012-08-26 16:44:29)

deex wrote:
3. With FORCE: sudo pacman -S pidgin-otr --force
( 3/194) installing glibc [#################################################] 100%
warning: /etc/locale.gen saved as /etc/locale.gen.pacorig
error: extract: not overwriting dir with file lib
error: problem occurred while installing glibc
error: could not commit transaction
error: failed to commit transaction (transaction aborted)
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.
How can i fix it?
At this point one would have to say that your're on your own. Its not good practice to --force anything unless explicitly required. From your #3 it looks like you wanted to force a pidgin install and forced an upgrade you werent prepared for.

Powaur - an AUR helper with a pacman-like interface

Hi guys,
I've just written this minimalistic AUR helper called powaur, with an interface like pacman / yaourt, so
there's no need to learn an addition set of commands. C is the only language I'm really really comfortable
with, so powaur is written in C.
Links
Github - https://github.com/yanhan/powaur
AUR - http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=49296
Updates
24 Jan 2012: - Updated to work with pacman 4 (!!)
10 July 2011: - allow uppercase answers for questions
28 June 2011: - --noconfirm option added
- --list-aur option added; lists installed AUR packages and their version
- only resolve dependencies for new / outdated AUR packages
26 June 2011: - allow installing of packages as root
- add per-user directory in form of /tmp/powaur-username, please comment out
"TmpDir" section of your powaur.conf for this to take effect
- print immediate dependencies for -S
- only print dependency graph for -S when --debug is supplied
10 June 2011: -S supports dependency resolution
-Su available to update outdated AUR packages
--crawl to output topological order of packages
-G --deps uses similar dependency resolution algorithm with -S
31 May 2011: Colorized output is now available!
26 May 2011: Multithreaded downloading is now supported!
Features
Currently, powaur offers the following feature set:
-G, --getpkgbuild Downloads PKGBUILDS of listed packages from the AUR
--deps Resolve dependencies for packages. This is turned off by default.
--threads <N> Limits the maximum number of threads to N (max of 10)
-S, --sync When used alone, installs packages from the AUR without dependency resolution.
--check Only meaningful with -u. Checks for outdated AUR packages without upgrading them
-i, --info Similar to that of pacman
-s, --search Searches the AUR for a single package
-u, --upgrade Updates outdated AUR packages
--vote Used with -s, orders search results by vote count (highest first) instead of alphabetical order
-Q, --query Queries installed packages
-i, --info Similar to that of pacman
-s, --search Similar to that of pacman
--crawl <package(s)> Shows a valid topological order of given packages
-B, --backup [dir] Backup the pacman local database in <dir>, or the current directory if unspecified
-M, --maintainer Searches the AUR for a maintainer
--vote Orders the maintainer's packages by vote count (highest first) instead of alphabetical order
--color Enable colorized output
--nocolor Turn off colorized output
--debug Displays debug information
-h, --help Displays help
-V, --version Displays version
Credits
Many thanks to Dave Reisner (falconindy) for allowing me to use code in cower for json parsing.
I also referred to source code from pacman and git.
Finally
Feature requests are welcome!
Last edited by yanhan (2012-01-24 11:27:33)

Hey there, yanhan. I just switched over from Gentoo to Arch simply for my love of Gnome 3. Maybe when Gentoo jumps on their Gnome support, I'll switch back... but for now, I'm loving Arch.
I downloaded powaur because I like pacman and I wanted to handle the AUR as seamlessly as emerge handles its overlays. I've got a super newb question for you, though, as per I don't quite know pacman's in's and out's yet.
So, as I'd like the 64-bit flash binary. I go about doing this as root:
[root@laptop patrick]# powaur -S flashplugin-prerelease
Syncing:
flashplugin-prerelease
==> Do you wish to proceed? [Y/n]
==> y
Resolving dependencies... Please wait
==> Dependency graph:
xineramaproto (installed) -> randrproto (installed) -> inputproto (installed) -> xextproto (installed) -> renderproto (installed) -> iana-etc (installed) -> xcb-proto (installed) -> kbproto (installed) -> xproto (installed) -> fixesproto (installed) -> compositeproto (installed) -> damageproto (installed) -> tzdata (installed) -> linux-api-headers (installed) -> glibc (installed) -> libice (installed) -> libdatrie (installed) -> libthai (installed) -> pixman (installed) -> libdaemon (installed) -> expat (installed) -> libjpeg-turbo (installed) -> libxdmcp (installed) -> libxau (installed) -> libxcb (installed) -> libx11 (installed) -> libxext (installed) -> libxinerama (installed) -> libxi (installed) -> libxfixes (installed) -> libxcomposite (installed) -> libxdamage (installed) -> libxrender (installed) -> libxcursor (installed) -> libxrandr (installed) -> nspr (installed) -> run-parts (installed) -> gcc-libs (installed) -> pcre (installed) -> glib2 (installed) -> atk (installed) -> attr (installed) -> acl (installed) -> libcap (installed) -> ncurses (installed) -> readline (installed) -> sqlite3 (installed) -> bash (installed) -> gzip (installed) -> libgpg-error (installed) -> libgcrypt (installed) -> keyutils (installed) -> findutils (installed) -> texinfo (installed) -> libtasn1 (installed) -> sed (installed) -> gdbm (installed) -> db (installed) -> libsasl (installed) -> gmp (installed) -> zlib (installed) -> libxml2 (installed) -> shared-mime-info (installed) -> freetype2 (installed) -> fontconfig (installed) -> libxft (installed) -> gnutls (installed) -> libpng (installed) -> cairo (installed) -> pango (installed) -> libtiff (installed) -> gdk-pixbuf2 (installed) -> gtk-update-icon-cache (installed) -> cracklib (installed) -> pam (installed) -> shadow (installed) -> coreutils (installed) -> filesystem (installed) -> util-linux (installed) -> libsm (installed) -> e2fsprogs (installed) -> dbus-core (installed) -> dbus (installed) -> avahi (installed) -> perl (installed) -> openssl (installed) -> libldap (installed) -> krb5 (installed) -> libcups (installed) -> ca-certificates (installed) -> libssh2 (installed) -> curl (installed) -> nss (installed) -> gtk2 (installed) -> libxt (installed) -> mozilla-common (installed) -> flashplugin-prerelease (AUR target)
==> Upgrading:
flashplugin-prerelease
==> Edit PKGBUILD for flashplugin-prerelease? [Y/n/a]
==> n
==> Continue installing flashplugin-prerelease? [Y/n]
==> y
==> ERROR: Running makepkg as root is a BAD idea and can cause
permanent, catastrophic damage to your system. If you
wish to run as root, please use the --asroot option.
Ok, fair enough.
So, as _not_ root.
[patrick@laptop powaur]$ powaur -S flashplugin-prerelease
Syncing:
flashplugin-prerelease
==> Do you wish to proceed? [Y/n]
==> y
Resolving dependencies... Please wait
Segmentation fault
So... what's my silly noob mistake that isn't allowing me to use your wonderful helper?

[SOLVED] Overwrite files with pacman.

Hello all
I know that pacman, as a design feature, does not overwrite files by default. I've read the post and the wiki about it.
But I've a situation where I would need to overwrite dozens of files, in different directories, and it would be very nice, If possible, to make an exception to this rule.
I dont know how, but I've messed up an Kdemod upgrade. It stopped working and I cant uninstall it, because pacman doesnt find the appropriate groups (Kdemod-complete and Kdemod-uninstall).
On the other hand, I cant simply reinstall it, or kde[extra], because pacman gives dozens "leftover file" messages in different directories, and refuses to overwrite them.
I just want a way to reinstall KDEmod, at least to try to remove everything with "pacman -Rd kdemod-uninstall" and start from scratch, if it doesnt work. And, I would like to escape manually removing all the files in different directories or a full system reinstall.
Any Ideas?
Thanks in advance for any help.
Last edited by Raws (2009-12-09 03:44:51)

falstaff_ch wrote:
Just in case someone Googles this Thread, nowadays its
# pacman -S --force <package>
Moderator comment: That is true as far as the synatax of Pacman command is concerned -- BUT -- using 'force', unless you know exactly what you're doing, is not recommended. It can cause serious breakage.
In fact, the -f flag was deliberately deprecated in favor of --force specifically to make it less likely that someone will try using it.
Closing this old thread....

AUR helper with download/build only option ?

Hi,
Currently I have a cron job that does this:
pacman -Syuw --noconfirm
This downloads all packages and put it in the cache in the background, this way when a run an upgrade I just have to validate.
I would like to have the same for AUR packages. Is anyone aware of a AUR helper with a "download+build" only option ?

pacaur (which uses cower) supports a -d flag to download only, and a -m flag to download and build. The -d flag will pull down dependencies. I'm quite happy with pacaur+cower as a day to day solution, $0.02.
EDIT: sorry I meant the -m flag pulls down deps -- to do it with the -d flag you have to specify it twice. </bourbon>
Last edited by TE (2014-12-13 00:53:36)

Loemu PKGBUILD, need help with python dependencies [solved]

I'm having a hard time determining the depends for this python application. It uses gtk and glade, but namcap is unable to determine dependencies for python apps, I think. It complains that I am including not needed depends. I found a requirements list here:
http://linux.softpedia.com/get/Utilitie … 4855.shtml
that might give some clues, but I'm still struggling to determine what's needed until I can get home and run the application.
My PKGBUILD in case you're interested and think you can help. I'm sure I need glade for python in the depends line, but I can't find it in AUR or with pacman.
# Contributor: robb_force <[email protected]>
pkgname=loemu
pkgver=0.1.1
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="A simple frontend for various game emulators, including XMAME, SDLMAME and Snes9x."
url="http://loemu.pegueroles.com/"
license="GPL"
arch=('i686')
depends=('pygtk>=2.6' 'libglade')
makedepends=('python>=2.4.0')
source=(http://loemu.pegueroles.com/dists/${pkgname}-${pkgver}.tar.gz)
md5sums=('d4cff1ef835ce19a9fd22cdaec47074a')
build() {
# Fix the paths in the scripts
cd ${startdir}/src/${pkgname}-${pkgver}
sed '/roms/d;/flyers/d;/snaps/d' -i setup.py
sed 's|share/games|share|g' -i setup.py
cd ${startdir}/src/${pkgname}-${pkgver}/${pkgname}
sed 's|share/games|share|g' -i Preferences.py
sed 's|share/games|share|g' -i Loemu.py
sed 's|share/games|share|g' -i Config.py
# Install the application
cd ${startdir}/src/${pkgname}-${pkgver}
python setup.py install --prefix=${startdir}/pkg/usr
Last edited by robb_force (2007-05-18 19:22:02)

Thanks for the response. I've added the working PKGBUILD to the AUR.
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?d … 1&ID=11093

[solved] Can find sisctrl with pacman

I'm trying to install sisctrl. I need that tool in order to use my beamer with my laptop. The thing is, I can't find it with pacman. This command gives nothing:
pacman -Ss sisctrl
When I started Googeling on this, I found this page. So, it seems to be in Pacman. Or, at least had been in pacman.
Could anyone help me out to install the on my system?
Thanks a lot anyway
Last edited by mariourk (2007-10-13 19:29:23)

It worked like a charm. I have SiSCtrl up and running.
I learned another nice feature of ArchLinux today. And I'm really starting to like it too.
Thanks a lot for the help guys!
Last edited by mariourk (2007-10-13 15:45:38)

Help with ABS

Hi. 2 days ago, I managed to setup photoshop cs4 runing on wine, but suddenly it stopped working today when after system upgrade. I noticed that wine version changed, so I searched on wiki to find how to get previous versions. Now... I found article on ABS, so I copied wine folder from abs tree, to my home/my username/abs directory. In wine pkgbuild I found in copied directory, I modified version to 1.2.2 which is last stable as I read on winehq. When I go to abs/wine and run makepkg -s I get this:
==> Making package: wine 1.2.2-1 (Sat Feb 5 15:37:06 CET 2011)
==> Checking Runtime Dependencies...
==> Checking Buildtime Dependencies...
==> Retrieving Sources...
-> Found wine-1.2.2.tar.bz2
==> Validating source files with md5sums...
wine-1.2.2.tar.bz2 ... FAILED
==> ERROR: One or more files did not pass the validity check!
Anyway, I thought that abs is created so that I can get source from some completely unknown software, and, I don't know.., compile it and make some sort of installation script for arch, and this is same as downloading from aur and running makepkg -si. Am I getting something wrong? Because, I've allready downloaded source from winehq, so I was kind of disappointed. I expected that I'll have to put this source into abs/wine folder and then do something with it.
Any ideas how to make this work? Here's PKGBUILD:
# $Id: PKGBUILD 38999 2011-02-04 20:31:47Z svenstaro $
# Maintainer: Sven-Hendrik Haase <[email protected]>
# Contributor: Jan "heftig" Steffens <[email protected]>
# Contributor: Eduardo Romero <[email protected]>
# Contributor: Giovanni Scafora <[email protected]>
pkgname=wine
pkgver=1.2.2
pkgrel=1
_pkgbasever=${pkgver/rc/-rc}
source=(http://ibiblio.org/pub/linux/system/emulators/$pkgname/$pkgname-$_pkgbasever.tar.bz2)
md5sums=('e6d4cd7e51678f90760e2193893637aa')
pkgdesc="A compatibility layer for running Windows programs"
url="http://www.winehq.com"
arch=(i686 x86_64)
license=(LGPL)
install=wine.install
depends=(
fontconfig lib32-fontconfig
mesa lib32-mesa
libxcursor lib32-libxcursor
libxrandr lib32-libxrandr
libxdamage lib32-libxdamage
libxxf86dga lib32-libxxf86dga
alsa-lib lib32-alsa-lib
makedepends=(autoconf ncurses bison perl fontforge flex prelink
'gcc>=4.5.0-2' 'gcc-multilib>=4.5.0-2'
giflib lib32-giflib
libxpm lib32-libxpm
libpng lib32-libpng
libxinerama lib32-libxinerama
libxcomposite lib32-libxcomposite
libxmu lib32-libxmu
libxxf86vm lib32-libxxf86vm
libxml2 lib32-libxml2
libxslt lib32-libxslt
libldap lib32-libldap
lcms lib32-lcms
mpg123 lib32-mpg123
openal lib32-openal
jack lib32-jack
libcups lib32-libcups
gnutls lib32-gnutls
v4l-utils lib32-v4l-utils
optdepends=(
giflib lib32-giflib
libpng lib32-libpng
libldap lib32-libldap
lcms lib32-lcms
libxml2 lib32-libxml2
mpg123 lib32-mpg123
openal lib32-openal
jack lib32-jack
libcups lib32-libcups
gnutls lib32-gnutls
v4l-utils lib32-v4l-utils
if [[ $CARCH == i686 ]]; then
# Strip lib32 etc. on i686
depends=(${depends[@]/*32-*/})
makedepends=(${makedepends[@]/*32-*/})
makedepends=(${makedepends[@]/*-multilib*/})
optdepends=(${optdepends[@]/*32-*/})
else
provides=("bin32-wine=$pkgver" "wine-wow64=$pkgver")
conflicts=('bin32-wine' 'wine-wow64')
replaces=('bin32-wine')
fi
build() {
cd "$srcdir"
# Allow ccache to work
mv $pkgname-$_pkgbasever $pkgname
# Get rid of old build dirs
rm -rf $pkgname-{32,64}-build
mkdir $pkgname-32-build
if [[ $CARCH == x86_64 ]]; then
msg2 "Building Wine-64..."
mkdir $pkgname-64-build
cd "$srcdir/$pkgname-64-build"
../$pkgname/configure \
--prefix=/usr \
--sysconfdir=/etc \
--libdir=/usr/lib \
--with-x \
--enable-win64
make
_wine32opts=(
--libdir=/usr/lib32
--with-wine64="$srcdir/$pkgname-64-build"
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH="/usr/lib32/pkgconfig"
fi
msg2 "Building Wine-32..."
cd "$srcdir/$pkgname-32-build"
../$pkgname/configure \
--prefix=/usr \
--sysconfdir=/etc \
--with-x \
"${_wine32opts[@]}"
make
package() {
msg2 "Packaging Wine-32..."
cd "$srcdir/$pkgname-32-build"
if [[ $CARCH == i686 ]]; then
make prefix="$pkgdir/usr" install
else
make prefix="$pkgdir/usr" \
libdir="$pkgdir/usr/lib32" \
dlldir="$pkgdir/usr/lib32/wine" install
msg2 "Packaging Wine-64..."
cd "$srcdir/$pkgname-64-build"
make prefix="$pkgdir/usr" \
libdir="$pkgdir/usr/lib" \
dlldir="$pkgdir/usr/lib/wine" install
fi
# vim:set ts=8 sts=2 sw=2 et:
EDIT: Just to make a note. I uninstalled official wine version with pacman and removed .wine from my home. And btw, I'm seeing this md5 checksums all over the web lately, so I'm guessing it's some way to check weather package is corrupted or not? If someone can explane me how can I check package with md5checksum in addition, that would be cool.
EDIT: One more thing. It says in wiki "now you just need to build that from source..." does that mean I have tounpack tar I just got from running makepkg -s and run install script?
Last edited by BlackArts (2011-02-05 14:49:55)

thisoldman wrote:
You didn't want to use the ABS, you wanted to downgrade the Wine package. I expect you may still downgrade without too much trouble.
You should use this wiki article as your guide: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Do … g_Packages
BlackArts wrote:I'm seeing this md5 checksums all over the web lately, so I'm guessing it's some way to check weather package is corrupted or not? If someone can explane me how can I check package with md5checksum in addition, that would be cool.
An md5sum is an integrity check to ensure that copies of a file match the original file. You can easily Google for linux howtos.
An ABS pkgbuild contains md5sums for the files in the current Arch version of the software. The md5sums should not match previous versions of the software. The files are not the same.
If you have problems downgrading Wine, others will help, I'm sure.
Thank you, you're awesome. I'm using linux for about 3.5 weeks now, and I never would have thought that there would be something like A.R.M. Now I can test those wine versions to see with which photoshop work best. Linux is awesome! XD (had to say that, but can't say arch explicitly, cos I haven't tried other versions )

AUR package not showing up with pacman -Qm

So, according with this topic, the OP couldn't find the chromium-pepper-flash package with pacman -Qm, but for me it shows up on the search (I have installed it from the AUR, with makepkg). Currently this package is located in the AUR.
I wonder why the OP couldn't find it? I mean, if this is an external package, not in the official repos, shouldn't it *always* shows up with pacman -Qm? Please notice that the OP didn't know at the time how he has installed this package, but I can't see other way if not with makepkg or with an AUR helper.
Last edited by thiagowfx (2014-01-10 21:37:25)

thiagowfx wrote:I wonder why the OP couldn't find it? I mean, if this is an external package, not in the official repos, shouldn't it *always* shows up with pacman -Qm?
The only thing that I can think of is that it was installed from a repository, because pacman -Qm lists all the packages which uou have installed which are not from any local databases stored on your computer.

System upgrade fails with pacman - phc-intel requires kernel26 2.6.31

Hello,
I'm a relative newbie to archlinux, so I hope I'm not asking a too stupid question ...
I have installed arch on an IBM Thinkpad X40. Was now on extended holidays and haven't done a system upgrade for a while. Wanted to do this now and pacman -Syy works fine. However, when I then start the upgrade with pacman -Su, the following error message occurs:
:: Starte komplette Systemaktualisierung...
:: portmap durch core/rpcbind ersetzen? [J/n] J
Löse Abhängigkeiten auf...
Suche nach Zwischen-Konflikten...
Fehler: Konnte den Vorgang (Kann Abhängigkeiten nicht erfüllen) nicht vorbereiten
:: phc-intel: benötigt kernel26<2.6.31
translated into English it basically means that pacman wants to replace portmap with rpcbind. However, the following error message occurs whether or not I say yes. The error messages says that it cannot fulfill the dependencies as phc-intel requires kernel26<2.6.31. The strange thing is that my kernel at the moment is 2.6.29.
A first run of pacman -u worked fine but only upgraded pacman itself. I had a pacman.conf.pacnew in /etc which I renamed to pacman.conf and kept the old one as a backup. However, this also didn't change anything.
I hope you guys can help me out, thanks in advance,
F.

The update will be trying to install a new kernel, which is why you're getting the error. For packages in the repos, a new one would be built that's compatible with the new kernel. Since it looks like phc-intel is from the AUR you'll need to build a new version yourself.
Edit - that's what I get for stepping away for a bit, you already got a response and fixed it
Last edited by mcmillan (2009-12-05 19:14:24)

[SOLVED]Updat Sync and Upgrade the system with pacman behind a proxy

Am brand new to archlinux having used ubuntu for over a year i felt it was time to upgrade to something that would allow me to learn linux not just use it. so far i have been able to install my system and everything works fine .. however am about to update my system with pacman (just finsihed setting up networking) and am wondering how i can make pacman work with network proxy. without which i would be unble to setup the laptop with arch any help is appreciated
Last edited by bigbrovar (2008-12-14 07:40:46)

solved this by adding my proxy variable to .bashrc in the home dir of the user i created. and also adding it to profile.bash in the /etc/

How to install multiple packages with pacman?

Hi ,
I guess it's a pretty noobish question but I wonder how to install multiple packages
that have the same prefix with Pacman.
To make myself more clear, I like to install all gstreamer packages and for that I would
like something similar to
pacman -S gstreamer10*
Is there a command that does something like this available? Found nothing in the man pages.
Maybe some tricky stuff with pipes?

sH wrote:Hi ibendiben,
thanks for your help, but I'm afraid, it does not work
I'm so sorry, my fault, I couln't test it, and made some big mistakes.
This time it's working:
pacman -S $(pacman -Ss gstreamer0.10 | sed -n 's#^$[^/]*/gstreamer0.10[^ ]*$ .*$#\1#p')

Help about pacman -Syu

After I installed arch , I input the term with pacman -Syu .
Then
::Synchronizing package databases...
core is up to date
extra is up to date
coommunity is up to date
::Starting full system upgrade...
::Replace module-init-tools with core/kmod?[y/n] y /*****************
Here I input a y ,but I do not know what does it mean. Please help here.*******/
error: failed to commit transcation (conflicting files)
filesystem: /etc/mtab exists in filesystem
initscripts: /etc/profile.d/locale.sh exists in filesystem
Errors occurred ,no packages were upgraded.
At this situation , what should I do ?

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Not again...help with this one....

dunno what happened but after updating to voodoo...the printer stoped printing...i try to print a test and all it does its start the printer and then its stops the job..my printer is a brother 2030...what went wrong? in 0.7.2 all worked just fine...help me with this one cause i really need it working...

Lone_Wolf wrote:
Try removing and adding your printer again.
I remember seeing something about a change in cups regarding usb printers a while ago.
ive donne that..ive even reomved all the files from cups..cause the models installed didnt deleted with pacman -R..so the problm remains..cups log....
I [01/Jan/2007:14:37:36 -0100] Scheduler shutting down normally.
I [01/Jan/2007:14:37:36 -0100] Saving remote.cache...
I [01/Jan/2007:14:37:36 -0100] Saving job cache file "/var/cache/cups/job.cache"...
I [01/Jan/2007:14:38:52 -0100] Listening to ::1:631 (IPv6)
I [01/Jan/2007:14:38:52 -0100] Listening to 127.0.0.1:631 (IPv4)
I [01/Jan/2007:14:38:52 -0100] Loaded configuration file "/etc/cups/cupsd.conf"
I [01/Jan/2007:14:38:52 -0100] Using default TempDir of /var/spool/cups/tmp...
I [01/Jan/2007:14:38:52 -0100] Cleaning out old temporary files in "/var/spool/cups/tmp"...
I [01/Jan/2007:14:38:52 -0100] Configured for up to 100 clients.
I [01/Jan/2007:14:38:52 -0100] Allowing up to 100 client connections per host.
I [01/Jan/2007:14:38:52 -0100] Using policy "default" as the default!
I [01/Jan/2007:14:38:52 -0100] Full reload is required.
I [01/Jan/2007:14:38:52 -0100] Loaded MIME database from '/etc/cups': 34 types, 39 filters...
I [01/Jan/2007:14:38:52 -0100] Loading job cache file "/var/cache/cups/job.cache"...
I [01/Jan/2007:14:38:52 -0100] Full reload complete.
I [01/Jan/2007:14:38:52 -0100] Listening to ::1:631 on fd 2...
I [01/Jan/2007:14:38:52 -0100] Listening to 127.0.0.1:631 on fd 3...
E [01/Jan/2007:14:38:52 -0100] Unable to set ACLs on root certificate "/var/run/cups/certs/0" - Operation not supported
I [01/Jan/2007:14:42:44 -0100] Adding start banner page "none" to job 12.
I [01/Jan/2007:14:42:44 -0100] Adding end banner page "none" to job 12.
I [01/Jan/2007:14:42:45 -0100] Job 12 queued on "HL-2060" by "sickhate".
I [01/Jan/2007:14:42:45 -0100] Started filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/pstops (PID 4790) for job 12.
I [01/Jan/2007:14:42:45 -0100] Started filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip (PID 4791) for job 12.
I [01/Jan/2007:14:42:45 -0100] Started backend /usr/lib/cups/backend/usb (PID 4792) for job 12.
E [01/Jan/2007:14:42:46 -0100] [Job 12] /undefined in ESPwl
E [01/Jan/2007:14:42:46 -0100] PID 4791 (/usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip) stopped with status 3!
I [01/Jan/2007:14:42:46 -0100] Hint: Try setting the LogLevel to "debug" to find out more.
I [01/Jan/2007:14:45:10 -0100] Job 12 was canceled by "sickhate".
I [01/Jan/2007:14:50:23 -0100] Started "/usr/lib/cups/daemon/cups-driverd" (pid=4981)
I [01/Jan/2007:14:50:23 -0100] Started "/usr/lib/cups/daemon/cups-deviced" (pid=4982)
E [01/Jan/2007:14:50:24 -0100] [CGI] Unable to send 46 bytes to 10.0.0.255: Operation not permitted
E [01/Jan/2007:14:50:24 -0100] [CGI] Unable to send 46 bytes to 172.16.45.255: Operation not permitted
E [01/Jan/2007:14:50:24 -0100] [CGI] Unable to send 46 bytes to 172.16.28.255: Operation not permitted
I [01/Jan/2007:14:50:29 -0100] Adding start banner page "none" to job 13.
I [01/Jan/2007:14:50:29 -0100] Adding end banner page "none" to job 13.
I [01/Jan/2007:14:50:29 -0100] Job 13 queued on "HL-2060" by "root".
I [01/Jan/2007:14:50:29 -0100] Started filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/pstops (PID 4997) for job 13.
I [01/Jan/2007:14:50:29 -0100] Started filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip (PID 4998) for job 13.
I [01/Jan/2007:14:50:29 -0100] Started backend /usr/lib/cups/backend/usb (PID 4999) for job 13.
E [01/Jan/2007:14:50:31 -0100] [Job 13] /undefined in ESPwl
E [01/Jan/2007:14:50:31 -0100] PID 4998 (/usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip) stopped with status 3!
I [01/Jan/2007:14:50:31 -0100] Hint: Try setting the LogLevel to "debug" to find out more.
I [30/Dec/2006:23:41:32 -0100] Scheduler shutting down normally.
I [30/Dec/2006:23:41:32 -0100] Saving remote.cache...
I [30/Dec/2006:23:41:32 -0100] Saving job cache file "/var/cache/cups/job.cache"...
I [30/Dec/2006:23:42:56 -0100] Listening to ::1:631 (IPv6)
I [30/Dec/2006:23:42:56 -0100] Listening to 127.0.0.1:631 (IPv4)
I [30/Dec/2006:23:42:56 -0100] Loaded configuration file "/etc/cups/cupsd.conf"
I [30/Dec/2006:23:42:56 -0100] Using default TempDir of /var/spool/cups/tmp...
I [30/Dec/2006:23:42:56 -0100] Cleaning out old temporary files in "/var/spool/cups/tmp"...
I [30/Dec/2006:23:42:56 -0100] Configured for up to 100 clients.
I [30/Dec/2006:23:42:56 -0100] Allowing up to 100 client connections per host.
I [30/Dec/2006:23:42:56 -0100] Using policy "default" as the default!
I [30/Dec/2006:23:42:56 -0100] Full reload is required.
I [30/Dec/2006:23:42:56 -0100] Loaded MIME database from '/etc/cups': 34 types, 39 filters...
I [30/Dec/2006:23:42:57 -0100] Loading job cache file "/var/cache/cups/job.cache"...
I [30/Dec/2006:23:42:57 -0100] Full reload complete.
I [30/Dec/2006:23:42:57 -0100] Listening to ::1:631 on fd 2...
I [30/Dec/2006:23:42:57 -0100] Listening to 127.0.0.1:631 on fd 3...
E [30/Dec/2006:23:42:57 -0100] Unable to set ACLs on root certificate "/var/run/cups/certs/0" - Operation not supported
I [30/Dec/2006:23:47:20 -0100] Scheduler shutting down normally.
I [30/Dec/2006:23:47:20 -0100] Saving remote.cache...
I [30/Dec/2006:23:47:20 -0100] Saving job cache file "/var/cache/cups/job.cache"...
I [30/Dec/2006:23:51:19 -0100] Listening to ::1:631 (IPv6)
I [30/Dec/2006:23:51:19 -0100] Listening to 127.0.0.1:631 (IPv4)
I [30/Dec/2006:23:51:19 -0100] Loaded configuration file "/etc/cups/cupsd.conf"
I [30/Dec/2006:23:51:19 -0100] Using default TempDir of /var/spool/cups/tmp...
I [30/Dec/2006:23:51:19 -0100] Cleaning out old temporary files in "/var/spool/cups/tmp"...
I [30/Dec/2006:23:51:19 -0100] Configured for up to 100 clients.
I [30/Dec/2006:23:51:19 -0100] Allowing up to 100 client connections per host.
I [30/Dec/2006:23:51:19 -0100] Using policy "default" as the default!
I [30/Dec/2006:23:51:19 -0100] Full reload is required.
I [30/Dec/2006:23:51:19 -0100] Loaded MIME database from '/etc/cups': 34 types, 39 filters...
I [30/Dec/2006:23:51:19 -0100] Loading job cache file "/var/cache/cups/job.cache"...
I [30/Dec/2006:23:51:19 -0100] Full reload complete.
I [30/Dec/2006:23:51:19 -0100] Listening to ::1:631 on fd 2...
I [30/Dec/2006:23:51:19 -0100] Listening to 127.0.0.1:631 on fd 3...
E [30/Dec/2006:23:51:19 -0100] Unable to set ACLs on root certificate "/var/run/cups/certs/0" - Operation not supported
I [31/Dec/2006:20:33:20 -0100] Scheduler shutting down normally.
I [31/Dec/2006:20:33:20 -0100] Saving remote.cache...
I [23/Dec/2006:12:12:21 -0100] Scheduler shutting down normally.
I [23/Dec/2006:12:12:21 -0100] Saving remote.cache...
I [23/Dec/2006:12:12:21 -0100] Saving job cache file "/var/cache/cups/job.cache"...
I [23/Dec/2006:12:13:33 -0100] Listening to ::1:631 (IPv6)
I [23/Dec/2006:12:13:33 -0100] Listening to 127.0.0.1:631 (IPv4)
I [23/Dec/2006:12:13:33 -0100] Loaded configuration file "/etc/cups/cupsd.conf"
I [23/Dec/2006:12:13:33 -0100] Using default TempDir of /var/spool/cups/tmp...
I [23/Dec/2006:12:13:33 -0100] Cleaning out old temporary files in "/var/spool/cups/tmp"...
I [23/Dec/2006:12:13:33 -0100] Configured for up to 100 clients.
I [23/Dec/2006:12:13:33 -0100] Allowing up to 100 client connections per host.
I [23/Dec/2006:12:13:33 -0100] Using policy "default" as the default!
I [23/Dec/2006:12:13:33 -0100] Full reload is required.
I [23/Dec/2006:12:13:33 -0100] Loaded MIME database from '/etc/cups': 34 types, 39 filters...
I [23/Dec/2006:12:13:33 -0100] Loading job cache file "/var/cache/cups/job.cache"...
I [23/Dec/2006:12:13:33 -0100] Full reload complete.
I [23/Dec/2006:12:13:33 -0100] Listening to ::1:631 on fd 2...
I [23/Dec/2006:12:13:33 -0100] Listening to 127.0.0.1:631 on fd 3...
E [23/Dec/2006:12:13:33 -0100] Unable to set ACLs on root certificate "/var/run/cups/certs/0" - Operation not supported
I [25/Dec/2006:22:12:48 -0100] Scheduler shutting down normally.
I [25/Dec/2006:22:12:49 -0100] Saving remote.cache...
any body? seems from permissions?can any devs update a package solving this problm?

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