How to backup yaourt installed package?

Hello,
I didn't if I installed package from aur, how can I backup before remove if I want install next time with pacman?
I seen mine package structure in /var/lib/pacman/local, but I don not understand where can I found pkg.tar.xz fie?
I wait for your answer.
Thanks

If you built the package using yaourt, then it probably put the pkg.tar.xz in /tmp. If you've rebooted since building the package, then the .pkg.tar.xz has gone. You'll have to rebuild it if you want to reinstall it.
I suggest you use makepkg directly, rather than using an AUR helper to build packages, but if you insist on using yaourt, I believe you can change where it saves it's completed packages (or at least where it builds them).

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How do I update/install packages from a CD?

Hello,
I am new to Arch Linux. Kindly excuse me if this task is very trivial. I have installed the base system and updated it using pacman -Syu. I also installed all the other software packages using pacman -S <packagename>. Now I want to burn a CD containing all these updates and packages so that I can make a similar installation later on other systems which are not connected to the internet. I am not able to figure out how this can be done.
I need to upgrade the system and install all the packages I have on the CD by giving minimum number of commands at the command line. This helps me install Arch Linux on a large number of machines in a very short time.
Thanks for your help.

If you're talking about batch installing packages, the method you suggested
will work for every package in the current directory.

How to Uninstall an installed package

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/Applications/
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My macbook pro crashed after installing maverick. I lost all my photos however the iPhone iPhoto app still has these photos so how can i access the package contents to recover these photos?

My macbook pro crashed after installing maverick. I lost all my photos however the iPhone iPhoto app still has these photos so how can i access the package contents to recover these photos?

We'll need to know more to beable to help. Do you want to try to restore your photos from your iPhone to your Mac, or try to recover the photos from the old iPhoto Library on your Mac?
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What versions of iPhoto are on your iPhone and your Mac?
however the iPhone iPhoto app still has these photos so how can i access the package contents to recover these photos?
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-- Léonie

[SOLVED] install package from aur via yaourt

Hi,
i installed yaourt and tried to install from the aur.
it keeps asking me to continue bulding and then restart building. it just wont install any packages.
for none-aur packages it works fine btw.
any help?
alex
Last edited by alext (2011-10-11 23:13:53)

me too and it didnt.
[xxx@xxx pcmanfm-mod]$ yaourt ntfs-config
1 aur/ntfs-config 1.0.1-7 (200)
Enable/disable NTFS write support with a simple click
==> Enter n° of packages to be installed (ex: 1 2 3 or 1-3)
==> -------------------------------------------------------
==> 1
==> Downloading ntfs-config PKGBUILD from AUR...
x PKGBUILD
x python-2.7.patch
Comment by: loleg on Sat, 25 Jun 2011 10:07:14 +0000
Compiles installs OK using yaourt, however does not work on my up-to-date system with the issue discussed here: http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-1497399.html
Comment by: jlcordeiro on Mon, 27 Jun 2011 08:56:12 +0000
Can you check if:
sudo mkdir /etc/hal/fdi
sudo touch /etc/hal/fdi/policy
solves the problem?
Comment by: mr430 on Tue, 04 Oct 2011 15:56:44 +0000
jlcordeiro, same problem and making /etc/hal/fdi directory solve it, thanks
Comment by: jlcordeiro on Sat, 08 Oct 2011 08:17:08 +0000
Updated with the solution to the mentioned problem.
Comment by: archdria on Tue, 11 Oct 2011 12:04:43 +0000
Please, add perl-xml-parser as makedep :)
Comment by: jlcordeiro on Tue, 11 Oct 2011 21:36:05 +0000
Done. Thank you :)
First Submitted: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 21:10:44 +0000
ntfs-config 1.0.1-7
( Unsupported package: Potentially dangerous ! )
==> Edit PKGBUILD ? [Y/n] ("A" to abort)
==> ------------------------------------
==> n
==> ntfs-config dependencies:
- python2 (already installed)
- pygtk (already installed)
- udev (already installed)
- ntfs-3g (already installed)
- perl-xml-parser (already installed)
- warning: (building from AUR)
- config (building from AUR)
- file (package found)
- /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist, (building from AUR)
- line (building from AUR)
- 82: (building from AUR)
- directive (building from AUR)
- 'Germany' (building from AUR)
- in (building from AUR)
- section (building from AUR)
- 'testing' (building from AUR)
- not (building from AUR)
- recognized. (building from AUR)
- warning: (building from AUR)
- config (building from AUR)
- file (package found)
- /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist, (building from AUR)
- line (building from AUR)
- 82: (building from AUR)
- directive (building from AUR)
- 'Germany' (building from AUR)
- in (building from AUR)
- section (building from AUR)
- 'core' (building from AUR)
- not (building from AUR)
- recognized. (building from AUR)
- warning: (building from AUR)
- config (building from AUR)
- file (package found)
- /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist, (building from AUR)
- line (building from AUR)
- 82: (building from AUR)
- directive (building from AUR)
- 'Germany' (building from AUR)
- in (building from AUR)
- section (building from AUR)
- 'extra' (building from AUR)
- not (building from AUR)
- recognized. (building from AUR)
- warning: (building from AUR)
- config (building from AUR)
- file (package found)
- /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist, (building from AUR)
- line (building from AUR)
- 82: (building from AUR)
- directive (building from AUR)
- 'Germany' (building from AUR)
- in (building from AUR)
- section (building from AUR)
- 'community-testing' (building from AUR)
- not (building from AUR)
- recognized. (building from AUR)
- warning: (building from AUR)
- config (building from AUR)
- file (package found)
- /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist, (building from AUR)
- line (building from AUR)
- 82: (building from AUR)
- directive (building from AUR)
- 'Germany' (building from AUR)
- in (building from AUR)
- section (building from AUR)
- 'community' (building from AUR)
- not (building from AUR)
- recognized. (building from AUR)
- warning: (building from AUR)
- config (building from AUR)
- file (package found)
- /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist, (building from AUR)
- line (building from AUR)
- 82: (building from AUR)
- directive (building from AUR)
- 'Germany' (building from AUR)
- in (building from AUR)
- section (building from AUR)
- 'multilib' (building from AUR)
- not (building from AUR)
- recognized. (building from AUR)
==> Continue building ntfs-config ? [Y/n]
==> -------------------------------------
==>
==> Building and installing package
==> Install or build missing dependencies for ntfs-config:
Password:
warning: config file /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist, line 82: directive 'Germany' in section 'testing' not recognized.
warning: config file /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist, line 82: directive 'Germany' in section 'core' not recognized.
warning: config file /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist, line 82: directive 'Germany' in section 'extra' not recognized.
warning: config file /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist, line 82: directive 'Germany' in section 'community-testing' not recognized.
warning: config file /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist, line 82: directive 'Germany' in section 'community' not recognized.
warning: config file /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist, line 82: directive 'Germany' in section 'multilib' not recognized.
error: target not found: recognized.
==> Restart building ntfs-config ? [y/N]
==> ------------------------------------
==>
==> Edit PKGBUILD ? [Y/n] ("A" to abort)
==> ------------------------------------
==> n
==> ntfs-config dependencies:
- python2 (already installed)
- pygtk (already installed)
- udev (already installed)
- ntfs-3g (already installed)
- perl-xml-parser (already installed)
- warning: (building from AUR)
- config (building from AUR)
- file (package found)
- /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist, (building from AUR)
- line (building from AUR)
- 82: (building from AUR)
- directive (building from AUR)
- 'Germany' (building from AUR)
- in (building from AUR)
- section (building from AUR)
- 'testing' (building from AUR)
- not (building from AUR)
- recognized. (building from AUR)
- warning: (building from AUR)
- config (building from AUR)
- file (package found)
- /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist, (building from AUR)
- line (building from AUR)
- 82: (building from AUR)
- directive (building from AUR)
- 'Germany' (building from AUR)
- in (building from AUR)
- section (building from AUR)
- 'core' (building from AUR)
- not (building from AUR)
- recognized. (building from AUR)
- warning: (building from AUR)
- config (building from AUR)
- file (package found)
- /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist, (building from AUR)
- line (building from AUR)
- 82: (building from AUR)
- directive (building from AUR)
- 'Germany' (building from AUR)
- in (building from AUR)
- section (building from AUR)
- 'extra' (building from AUR)
- not (building from AUR)
- recognized. (building from AUR)
- warning: (building from AUR)
- config (building from AUR)
- file (package found)
- /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist, (building from AUR)
- line (building from AUR)
- 82: (building from AUR)
- directive (building from AUR)
- 'Germany' (building from AUR)
- in (building from AUR)
- section (building from AUR)
- 'community-testing' (building from AUR)
- not (building from AUR)
- recognized. (building from AUR)
- warning: (building from AUR)
- config (building from AUR)
- file (package found)
- /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist, (building from AUR)
- line (building from AUR)
- 82: (building from AUR)
- directive (building from AUR)
- 'Germany' (building from AUR)
- in (building from AUR)
- section (building from AUR)
- 'community' (building from AUR)
- not (building from AUR)
- recognized. (building from AUR)
- warning: (building from AUR)
- config (building from AUR)
- file (package found)
- /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist, (building from AUR)
- line (building from AUR)
- 82: (building from AUR)
- directive (building from AUR)
- 'Germany' (building from AUR)
- in (building from AUR)
- section (building from AUR)
- 'multilib' (building from AUR)
- not (building from AUR)
- recognized. (building from AUR)
==> Continue building ntfs-config ? [Y/n]
==> -------------------------------------
==>
==> Building and installing package
==> Install or build missing dependencies for ntfs-config:
warning: config file /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist, line 82: directive 'Germany' in section 'testing' not recognized.
warning: config file /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist, line 82: directive 'Germany' in section 'core' not recognized.
warning: config file /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist, line 82: directive 'Germany' in section 'extra' not recognized.
warning: config file /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist, line 82: directive 'Germany' in section 'community-testing' not recognized.
warning: config file /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist, line 82: directive 'Germany' in section 'community' not recognized.
warning: config file /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist, line 82: directive 'Germany' in section 'multilib' not recognized.
error: target not found: recognized.
==> Restart building ntfs-config ? [y/N]
==> ------------------------------------
==>
==> WARNING: Following packages have not been installed:
ntfs-config
Edit: now ive just seen that i forgot about the warnings. i am not sure about what they mean and how to fix it.
Last edited by alext (2011-10-11 22:16:58)

How to get and install the new MSI Bluetooth Software Package 1.4.3.3.

How to get and install the new MSI Bluetooth Software Package 1.4.3.3.
This little FAQ will only cover the new version of MSI Bluetooth Software Package.
First thing too do is unistall any older version of the MSI Bluetooth Software.
Do this through the Add/Remove program applet in your control panel.
There seams too be only through Live update you could get the new version of MSI Bluetooth Software Package.
If you can't see any enter for MSI Bluetooth Software in the Live driver section of Live update then you have too enter the following too your registry.
Create following code in Notepad and save it as MSILD.reg, then run the file.
;-->Code start
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\MSI\Drivers\MSI Bluetooth Software]
"DrvSetup"="1"
"Version"="1.4.2.10"
;-->Code end
Rerun the Live update and hopefully you will now see a entry for MSI Bluetooth Software in Live driver section.
Install the new version of MSI Bluetooth Software and reboot your computer. Even if the setup program doesnt told you too doit.
After rebooting the computer you will see the Bluetooth icon in the taskbar. If it's Red then try too start the Bluetooth services by right click on the try icon and the only alternetiv there is.
If the Bluetooth services is asking for a valid licens.dat then you should do the following.
Surf to Jon's Bluetooth guide http://www.jonsguides.com./bluetooth/prepare.html and download the patcher from the link there.
Unzip the the patcher and then run the BTWPatcher.exe program.
Now the Bluetooth services will start and you will bee able too configure your own settings for the Bluetooth services.
If nothing of this work you could try the complete Bluetooth solution at Jon's gudie and install the IBM version of the same program. I havent test this solution and will not do soo.

I have the MS-6968 device and i want to use driver 1.4.x or 3.0.x. I found the driver 1.4.2.10 but i cannot find any WIDCOMMSecurity code.
So, can anyone give me a link for BTWPatcher.exe???
It cannot be found here (Jon's Bluetooth ) anymore.
Thanks

How to install packages from local folder

Hi all,
I have downloaded all arch linux packages from the following URLs:
ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/archlinux/core/os/i686/
ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/archlinux/extra/os/i686/
ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/archlinux/community/os/i686/
and then have saved them to an external hard disk. Then I have attached that external hard disk to my system and packages are available in following folders:
/mnt/external_hd/Arch_Linux/Core-OS/
/mnt/external_hd/Arch_Linux/Extra-OS-1/
/mnt/external_hd/Arch_Linux/Extra-OS-2/
/mnt/external_hd/Arch_Linux/Community-OS-1/
/mnt/external_hd/Arch_Linux/Community-OS-2/
/mnt/external_hd/Arch_Linux/Community-OS-3/
Now I want to install some or all packages from these folder with the help of pacman command. I am seeing that package corresponding to wvdial command is available in the /mnt/external_hd/Arch_Linux/Extra-OS-1/ folder. But how to use pacman command so that I can install wvdial package from that folder?
In addition to this if I want to install ALL Extra Packages available in the folders /mnt/external_hd/Arch_Linux/Extra-OS-1/ and /mnt/external_hd/Arch_Linux/Extra-OS-2/ then how to execute the pacman command?
Please send me step by step instructions so that I shall be able to install some or all downloaded packages.
I shall remain thankful for this forever.
Best Regards ...
Pankaj Kumar

Hi fukawi2,
Thanks for reply and searching for my username on google. It is true that I am a freelance s/w developer but I am not installing Arch Linux for any client. I am installing it due to some other reasons. In fact I started working on Red Hat and then on Fedora when I was a student of bachelor degree course in computer applications. Then later I searched open suse and started using it. I am using open suse from its 10.1 version. However the recent version of this distribution has become much resource consuming. So I am in the need of a light weight linux distribution. And I encountered Arch Linux. Then I purchased its installation disk from an online shop and installed it on my system. But only text mode is working at this moment. Since I want to use X window and so I started to follow the syntax of pacman command. But it is connecting to internet. Since my internet connection is slow (average speed of 10kbps) and so I requested the same online shop to download all packages from Arch Linux repository and send them to me. Therefore now I am having all those packages in my local external hard disk drive in the folder mentioned in my first post. Now I want to install packages from these folder. And so in order to get help I have come to this forum.
I have also followed the steps given on the pages https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pa … l_commands and https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pa … repository. But when I am trying to install a particular package using the following command:
pacman -U wvdial
then it is asking for a dependency. I know that the dependent package in my local folder but why it is not being automatically taken by pacman command? Can you please explain it.
That is why I am asking help only for customization and usages of pacman in order to install packages from local folder. But each member in this forum is only referring to long written manuals and not giving me exact solution which I think will involve four/five steps.
Best Regards ...
Pankaj Kumar

How to Return List of Packages from Pacman/Yaourt Search

----EDIT----
Changed the name of the script from pacsearch to pacdot.
Apparently yaourt -Ssaq does this, so this script isn't as necessary as I thought. Although, I still find using pacdot -w to open the results in a text document helpful.
----/EDIT----
This isn't a question; it's a script I wrote. I thought someone else might find this useful.
I keep finding myself searching with pacman or yaourt and wishing I could get just the package names, not all of the extra stuff. For example, I'd love to be able to run yaourt -Sa $(yaourt -Ssa package). It doesn't seem like pacman and yaourt have an option for this (not that I can tell, at least), so I wrote a python script to do it. Copy it if you'd like. You can name it what you want, but I'll refer to it as pacdot.py.
pacdot.py package will be like yaourt -Ssa package but only list the package names.
I added a few extra options:
pacdot.py -o package will only list results from the official Arch repositories, not the AUR.
pacdot.py -i package will install all the found packages. If you've ever thought about running something like yaourt -Sa $(yaourt -Ssa package), that's what this command does.
pacdot.py -w package will:
Create a file called 'the-package-you-searched.txt',
Write an example command that would install the found packages,
(yaourt -Sa all-of-the-results),
Write each result on a new line, and
Open the file for you (with your default text editor).
Here's the code:
#!/bin/python3
import argparse
import re
from subprocess import Popen, PIPE, call
from collections import deque
desc = ''.join(('Search the official Arch and AUR databases ',
'and return package names only. ',
'e.g.: `pacdot.py arch` will return "arch", ',
'whereas `$ yaourt -Ssa arch` will return ',
'"community/arch 1.3.5-10',
' A modern and remarkable revision control system."'
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description=desc)
parser.add_argument('package',
help='Package to search with pacman')
parser.add_argument('-o', '--official', action='store_true',
help='Search official repositories only, not the AUR')
parser.add_argument('-i', '--install', action='store_true',
help='Install found packages')
parser.add_argument('-w', '--write', action='store_true',
help='Write to file')
#Set args strings.
args = parser.parse_args()
pkg = args.package
official_only = args.official
install = args.install
write = args.write
# Do yaourt search.
package_search = Popen(['yaourt', '-Ssa', '%s' % pkg], stdout=PIPE).communicate()
# Put each found package into a list.
package_titles_descs = str(package_search[0]).split('\\n')
# Strip off the packages descriptions.
package_titles = [package_titles_descs[i]
for i in range(0, len(package_titles_descs), 2)]
# Remove empty item in list.
del(package_titles[-1])
# Make a separate list of the non-aur packages.
package_titles_official = deque(package_titles)
[package_titles_official.remove(p)
for p in package_titles if p.startswith('aur')]
# Strip off extra stuff like repository names and version numbers.
packages_all = [re.sub('([^/]+)/([^\s]+) (.*)',
r'\2', str(p))
for p in package_titles]
packages_official = [re.sub('([^/]+)/([^\s]+) (.*)',
r'\2', str(p))
for p in package_titles_official]
# Mark the aur packages.
# (Not needed, just in case you want to modify this script.)
#packages_aur = packages_all[len(packages_official):]
# Set target packages to 'all' or 'official repos only'
# based on argparse arguments.
if official_only:
packages = packages_official
else:
packages = packages_all
# Print the good stuff.
for p in packages:
print(p)
if write:
# Write results to file.
filename = ''.join((pkg, '.txt'))
with open(filename, 'a') as f:
print(''.join(('Yaourt search for "', pkg, '"\n')), file=f)
print('To install:', file=f)
packages_string = ' '.join(packages)
print(' '.join(('yaourt -Sa', packages_string)), file=f)
print('\nPackage list:', file=f)
for p in packages:
print(p, file=f)
# Open file.
call(('xdg-open', filename))
if install:
# Install packages with yaourt.
for p in packages:
print(''.join(('\n\033[1;32m==> ', '\033[1;37m', p,
'\033[0m')))
Popen(['yaourt', '-Sa', '%s' % p]).communicate()
Last edited by GreenRaccoon23 (2014-12-22 19:17:37)

expac works only with official and unofficial repos, not with the AUR, but it's very nice.
Adding '-q' should help, grep to weed out false positives.
yaourt -Sa $(yaourt -Ssaq pulse)
works, but
$ yaourt -Sa $(yaourt -Ssaq chrome)
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...
warning: removing 'chromium' from target list because it conflicts with 'chromium-no-sse2'
error: unresolvable package conflicts detected
error: failed to prepare transaction (conflicting dependencies)
:: chromium-no-sse2 and chromium-scroll-pixelGs are in conflict
so at least
$ yaourt -Sa $(yaourt -Ssaq chrome|grep google)
is needed.
Edit: Also:
$ LC_ALL=C TZ=GMT0 diff -Naur /usr/bin/pacsearch /usr/local/bin/pacsearch
--- /usr/bin/pacsearch 2014-11-21 11:20:37.000000000 +0000
+++ /usr/local/bin/pacsearch 2014-12-21 08:21:14.758856006 +0000
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@
my %allpkgs = ();
-my $syncout = `pacman -Ss '@ARGV'`;
+my $syncout = `pacman -Ssq '@ARGV'`;
# split each sync search entry into its own array entry
my @syncpkgs = split(/\n^(?=\w)/m, $syncout);
# remove the extra \n from the last desc entry
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@
$allpkgs{$pkgfields[1]} = [ @pkgfields ];
-my $queryout = `pacman -Qs '@ARGV'`;
+my $queryout = `pacman -Qqs '@ARGV'`;
# split each querysearch entry into its own array entry
my @querypkgs = split(/\n^(?=\w)/m, $queryout);
# remove the extra \n from the last desc entry
$ /usr/local/bin/pacsearch pulse
libpulse
pulseaudio
libao
libcanberra-pulse
libpulse
paprefs
pavucontrol
pulseaudio
pulseaudio-alsa
floyd
libcec
mate-media-pulseaudio
mate-settings-daemon-pulseaudio
ponymix
projectm-pulseaudio
Although why not simply use pacman or expac?
Last edited by karol (2014-12-21 08:26:48)

How to install packages on client via VPN

Hello
I have a number of users that use laptops and mostly connect to the office network via an OSX VPN Server. I can see when they connect, copy files to them and control their screens.
I do not seem to be able to install packages to them. The ARD console goes through the motions but the package never gets to the remote end and is never installed.
Can anyone shed any light on this? From what I can tell this may be a multicast issue - if this is true how can I get the VPN server to route the multicast traffic, or alternatively how can I stop ARD from using multicast for these clients?
Any help appreciated. If I can not use the package installation system it will make managing these users quite difficult.
Kind regards
Jason
Mac OS X (10.4.9)

Hi Jason,
Have you found anything else that can't be done or is acting strangely using ARD with those connecting via VPN? Another question that comes to mind is the up and down speed of both your office's connection to the net and that of the clients connecting in. You said that you can copy files to them--does that work with large files as well? Have you tried copying the install package rather than installing it to see if that works?
I ask all of this because I've found in my support role with VPN clients, that viewing/controlling the screen, copying small files, chats, and alerts all work fine. But a large install package? I don't even bother. Sure, it works locally, but the upload speed of the company's internet connection isn't fast enough to do large copies or installs remotely. (Which is why I'm wondering about copying a large file.) I usually get a "Communication Error".
Power Mac G5 1.8GHz DP, 1.5GB RAM, Mac OS X (10.4.10)

Can't update/search/install packages via pacman or yaourt

Everything was fine until I manually installed package-query and yaourt and now I am unable to update/search/install packages via pacman or yaourt.
Earlier I was having trouble installing the package-query and yaourt packges using pacman so had to install them manually and now it wont connect to the repos.
My eth0 is up, the proxies are set, all browsers work so no problem from the network side.
:: Synchronizing package databases...
error: failed retrieving file 'core.db' from mirror.us.leaseweb.net : Connection timed out after 10001 milliseconds
error: failed retrieving file 'core.db' from mirror.nl.leaseweb.net : Connection timed out after 10001 milliseconds
error: failed retrieving file 'core.db' from mirror.de.leaseweb.net : Connection timed out after 10001 milliseconds
error: failed retrieving file 'core.db' from archlinux.polymorf.fr : Connection

clfarron4 wrote:I usually advise against this (mainly because it's out-dated) but there is the [archlinuxfr] repository for installing yaourt, if you really insist on sticking with it. Once you're done, disable the repository though because everything except for yaourt is out-of-date by at least a month.
Don't ever suggest that. The repo is 100% useless since it is trivial to install yaourt from aur. Also yaourt/package-query in that repo is often broken/outdated.
Also it is not relevant to op's problem anyway. There were some routing issue to leseweb the other day, I also noticed it. Just switching mirror works fine.
Last edited by Mr.Elendig (2013-09-04 13:37:49)

How to install packages from removable media?

I'm pretty damn sure that i missed some wiki page, but i cannot find it, how do i install packages without an internet connection. I installed on one of my computers, then realized i needed to install the wireless drivers after the install, which i cannot. I can ofcourse reinstall, but i believe there must be a possibility to make pacman install a bunch of packages from USB or a cd. I do have internet at my other computer, so i can download the packages there onto a usb-stick.

Hi,
you should try
pacman -U /path/to/package.pkg.tar.gz
I haven't tried this but that's the way one would manually install a package build with PKGBUILD and "made" with makepkg.
Hope that helps.

How to install packages use aur?

I want install dropbox package and download use tarball done,it save home dirctory.
so i follwed by https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ar … Repository .
# pacman -S base-devel is done. I try to find build dirctory no have.
i did make folder but not save it.then do this
[wasan@arch ~]$ cd ~/builds
bash: cd: /home/wasan/builds: No such file or directory
[wasan@arch ~]$ cd builds
bash: cd: builds: No such file or directory any help thanks.

wasan wrote:I want install google earth ,libreoffice, drop box in arch. some binery files how to open and install. I try to open use arc no use, so choose via tarball method .thanks for answers.
At a guess, it seems like English might not be your first language. I would recommend you try asking in the Other Languages sub-forum. At least, LibreOffice is in the official repositories, so you shouldn't need to deal with the AUR if you don't want.
All the best,
-HG

[Solved]"yaourt -Syua" no longer lists installed packages.....

When I run:
$ yaourt -Syu
/usr/bin/pacman -Sy
:: Synchronizing package databases...
2012-01-17 12:12:20 (23.4 KB/s) - saved “/var/lib/pacman/sync/archlinuxfr.db.part” [28637/28637])
$
Then run:
$yaourt -Syua
:: Synchronizing package databases...
2012-01-17 12:12:20 (23.4 KB/s) - saved “/var/lib/pacman/sync/archlinuxfr.db.part” [28637/28637])
acpitool: Orphan
clearlooksosx-icon-theme: Orphan
xecjk: Orphan
Foreign packages: \ 103 / 103
$
It no longer shows the installed packages list, just counting in one line "Foreign packages: \ 103 / 103" and exit without updating. Is this normal?
Last edited by hooluupog (2012-01-18 04:25:06)

mod action: Moving from Pacman & Package Upgrade Issues to AUR Issues, Discussion & PKGBUILD Requests.

When updating itunes I get the message the install package can't find a file (itunes.msi) I've searched but can't find this file. How do I install it?

When updating itunes I get the message the install package can't find a file (itunes.msi) I've searched but can't find this file. How do I install it?

Download the Windows Installer CleanUp utility from the following page (use one of the links under the thingy on the Major Geeks page):
http://majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=4459
To install the utility, doubleclick the msicuu2.exe file you downloaded.
Now run the utility ("Start > All Programs > Windows Install Clean Up"). In the list of programs that appears in CleanUp, select any iTunes entries and click "Remove", as per the following screenshot:
Quit out of CleanUp, restart the PC and try another iTunes install. Does it go through properly this time?

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