Issue With Installing GFortran

Question

Hello,
I am attempting to resurrect an old rig. My goal is experiment with system administration. My requirements are that the machine have a Basic Linear Algebra Subroutines (BLAS) implementation installed. Further, this implementation should be written in Fortran. Unfortunately, I have not been able to get GNU's Fortran compiler installed.
Here is the output of 'uname -a'
Linux lampadas 3.9.9-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Jul 3 22:52:05 CEST 2013 i686 GNU/Linux
To start, I attempted to install the GNU Compiler Collection by:
$ sudo pacman -S gcc
However, the resulting installation does not include GFortran! I believe this means that the packaged binaries that are available do not include the GFortran front end. I then attempted to install it more directly:
$ sudo pacman -S gcc-fortran
This results in something stranger:
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...
Packages (1): gcc-fortran-4.8.1-1
Total Download Size:    4.80 MiB
Total Installed Size:   15.49 MiB
:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n]
Upon confirming the installation 'pacman' starts to output:
error: failed retrieving file 'gcc-fortran-4.8.1-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz' from arch.linux.net.mk : The requested URL returned error: 404 Not Found
error: failed retrieving file 'gcc-fortran-4.8.1-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz' from mirror.jmu.edu : The requested URL returned error: 404 Not Found
error: failed retrieving file 'gcc-fortran-4.8.1-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz' from mirror.internode.on.net : The requested URL returned error: 404 Not Found
error: failed retrieving file 'gcc-fortran-4.8.1-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz' from ftp.mfa.kfki.hu : The requested URL returned error: 404 Not Found
error: failed retrieving file 'gcc-fortran-4.8.1-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz' from mirror.archlinux.fi : The requested URL returned error: 404 Not Found
error: failed retrieving file 'gcc-fortran-4.8.1-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz' from archlinux.aubrac-medical.fr : The requested URL returned error: 404 Not Found
error: failed retrieving file 'gcc-fortran-4.8.1-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz' from ftp.portlane.com : The requested URL returned error: 404 Not Found
error: failed retrieving file 'gcc-fortran-4.8.1-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz' from mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca : The requested URL returned error: 404 Not Found
gcc-fortran-4.8.1-1-i686                                                      4.6 MiB   340K/s 00:14 [################################################################] 100%
(1/1) checking keys in keyring                                                                               [################################################################] 100%
(1/1) checking package integrity                                                                            [################################################################] 100%
error: failed to commit transaction (wrong or NULL argument passed)
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.
Can someone shed some light on what is going on here?

Answer 1

As you can see, https://www.archlinux.org/packages/?name=gcc-fortran gcc-fortran is available in version 4.8.1-2, not 4.8.1-1. It's been just updated about a day ago, if I'm reading it right, so all the servers should have it by now.
Also, your kernel should be at least 3.10.3-1 https://www.archlinux.org/packages/?sor … name=linux
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