Pacman.conf kinda confused

Hello i am just trying out Arch Linux and just did a fresh install. And i trying to enable the repositories and i seem to keep running into an error
everytime i type pacman or anything related it get this error
error: config file /etc/pacman.conf, line 65: directive 'Add your preferred servers here, they will be used first' not recognized.
I know you have to add your own mirrors and such which i did, but still getting errors here is my etc/pacman.conf and /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
here is the pacman.conf
# /etc/pacman.conf
# See the pacman.conf(5) manpage for option and repository directives
# GENERAL OPTIONS
[options]
# The following paths are commented out with their default values listed.
# If you wish to use different paths, uncomment and update the paths.
#RootDir = /
#DBPath = /var/lib/pacman/
#CacheDir = /var/cache/pacman/pkg/
#LogFile = /var/log/pacman.log
HoldPkg = pacman glibc
# If upgrades are available for these packages they will be asked for first
SyncFirst = pacman
#XferCommand = /usr/bin/wget --passive-ftp -c -O %o %u
#XferCommand = /usr/bin/curl %u > %o
#CleanMethod = KeepInstalled
# Pacman won't upgrade packages listed in IgnorePkg and members of IgnoreGroup
#IgnorePkg =
#IgnoreGroup =
#NoUpgrade =
#NoExtract =
# Misc options (all disabled by default)
#NoPassiveFtp
#UseSyslog
#ShowSize
#UseDelta
#TotalDownload
# REPOSITORIES
# - can be defined here or included from another file
# - pacman will search repositories in the order defined here
# - local/custom mirrors can be added here or in separate files
# - repositories listed first will take precedence when packages
# have identical names, regardless of version number
# - URLs will have $repo replaced by the name of the current repo
# Repository entries are of the format:
# [repo-name]
# Server = ServerName
# Include = IncludePath
# The header [repo-name] is crucial - it must be present and
# uncommented to enable the repo.
# Testing is disabled by default. To enable, uncomment the following
# two lines. You can add preferred servers immediately after the header,
# and they will be used before the default mirrors.
#[testing]
#Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
[localmirror]
Server = http://www.pollicina.org/arch/localmirror
core
Add your preferred servers here, they will be used first
Server = http://mirrors.easynews.com/linux/archl … po/os/i686
Include = /etc/pacman.d/core
extra
Add your preferred servers here, they will be used first
Server = http://mirror.pacific.net.au/linux/arch/extra/os/i686
Include = /etc/pacman.d/extra
community
Add your preferred servers here, they will be used first
Server = http://shlunix.org/archlinux/repo/os/i686
Include = /etc/pacman.d/community
# An example of a custom package repository. See the pacman manpage for
# tips on creating your own repositories.
#[custom]
#Server = file:///home/custompkgs
Here is the /etc/mirrorlist
# Arch Linux repository mirrorlist
# Generated on 2009-06-16
United States
Server = http://mirror.archlinux.com.ve/$repo/os/i686
Server = http://archlinux.unixheads.org/$repo/os/i686
Server = ftp://mirror.cs.vt.edu/pub/ArchLinux/$repo/os/i686
Server = http://mirror.cs.vt.edu/pub/ArchLinux/$repo/os/i686
Server = ftp://mirrors.easynews.com/linux/archli … po/os/i686
Server = http://mirrors.easynews.com/linux/archl … po/os/i686
Server = ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/$repo/os/i686
Server = http://mirrors.gigenet.com/archlinux/$repo/os/i686
Server = ftp://ftp.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/linux/di … po/os/i686
Server = http://www.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/linux/d … po/os/i686
Server = ftp://mirrors.hosef.org/archlinux/$repo/os/i686
Server = http://mirrors.hosef.org/archlinux/$repo/os/i686
Server = ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributio … po/os/i686
Server = http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/dis … po/os/i686
Server = ftp://locke.suu.edu/linux/dist/archlinux/$repo/os/i686
Server = ftp://mirror.rit.edu/archlinux/$repo/os/i686
Server = http://mirror.rit.edu/archlinux/$repo/os/i686
Server = http://schlunix.org/archlinux/$repo/os/i686
Server = http://mirror.sourceshare.org/archlinux/$repo/os/i686
Server = http://archlinux.umflint.edu/$repo/os/i686
Server = http://mirror.umoss.org/archlinux/$repo/os/i686
# Venezuela
#Server = http://mirror2.archlinux.com.ve/$repo/os/i686
# Vietnam
#Server = ftp://202.78.230.5/archlinux/$repo/os/i686
#Server = ftp://ftp.indochinalinux.com/archlinux/$repo/os/i686
#Server = ftp://mirror-fpt-telecom.fpt.net/archli … po/os/i686
#Server = http://mirror-fpt-telecom.fpt.net/archl … po/os/i686
Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks for the reply appreciate it.
And i think i understand it alittle bit better here is a link to my changed pacman.conf and mirrorlist
Im still receiving errors about the mirrors
pacman.conf link
http://pastebin.ca/1576914
mirrorlist
http://pastebin.ca/1576916

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I have read all the wiki stuff for sure though I'm still a bit in the dark and wanted to ask without typing the many many options.
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Last edited by yvonney (2009-06-18 20:27:14)

COMMENT WRITTEN LAST: I was about to delete a lot of stuff here though thought to just say sorry for not taking the brain-time to slim it. The bold and white boxed part is the main related quest-ion.
you might find a few useful tools on my site (in my sig), e.g. pkgd if you want to save bandwidth on a LAN --- pbget if you want to easily get PKGBUILDs etc from the AUR and official repos, etc.
WOW Xyne !!!! thanks. pbget etc. sound very cool.
I used yaourt until very recently. Then went ....hmmmm... should learn about manual building and local repo. Where I'm at now is trying to do as much manually as possible. I think I kinda know what packages I want and there will only be some changes from that in the future. There's maybe 20 packages from AUR for me. [PLUS their dependencies]
Of course: I am doing the repo-add local repositories thing for speed, learning, and as part of my whole 'best practices' growth. Plus it will come in very handy when helping other decide quickly if a barbones mainly wm/ncurses lightweight system is for them.
You certainly spark a question or two!
[AUR and dependencies via yaourt affecting my plans to now go manually]
As these have all ALREADY been installed via yaourt my BIG concern is that I've never found much of a yaourt/cache folder. You see, as you'd know many many times upon installing vai yaourt there's some dependency that may, or I guess, may not be in the standard repos.
After installing these packages via yaourt do the dependencies go into /var/cache/pacman.pkg and is pacman aware of it when I do a repo-add for thecustom database. If so, then all if fairly cool for my plans. I bet there's a few idiosyncrasies about AUR and dependencies maybe.
-AUR dependency resolution-
Using a custom repo will not really work for general use because you would need to manually populate the database with the dependencies anyway.
I'm fine with manually doing dependencies - though need to know if my yaourt usage ALREADY put the latest dependencies in the pacman cache for AUR unsupported packages AND is there a way with the whole repo-add, local repositry, pacman and aur concpt I'm planning to fine tune to have the dependencies update when I go back to the online repositries? I don't think so based on my usage with yaourt, though can't quite recall.
As I will be enjoying makepkg building the group of packages I nee to get from AUR for the forseeable future (that are not in the main 3 repos of course)
I'm still wondering about the inter-relationships. So: I already have installed and/or built the packages for everything I expect to need mostly. I never became beyone mediocre with yaourt. and that fine, though I now have to consider that in a new install I DO have the latest AUR built packages, though will there be the right dependencies ALREADY in my /var/cache/pacman/pkg ?
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Um, now could spend an hour editing down the above!!!
wondrous thanks!
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[solved] when to update pacman.conf

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Edit pacman.conf without editor

Hi folks,
I have got a BIG problem. That is what I did:
I installed a new /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
after that I got an error in pacman, which said that the architecture is unknown or sth
so I inserted "Architecture = x86_64" into pacman.conf and did some updates
after a restart some time later xinit failed to initialize "x" ... probably because my window manager can not load (see following text)
well, now I am left without X and when I try to start vim it says sth like: "error while loading shared libraries gtk-x11-...sth... wrong ELF class ELFCLASS64"
now I tried to install nano via pacman which was successful, but as soon as I try to start nano it says "/usr/bin/nano file or directory not found" (I also tried to install vi with the same result)
Now I am really lost since I can not edit any files, especially pacman.conf to change the architecture, since I guess the origin of my problem is that I did not have a x64 system in first place!? Even though I am sure I have ...
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Best,
Tobias

Please try to give us some more information:
Do
ls -l /usr/bin | grep nano
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mount
. If you are unsure, post the output.
Also please provide your pacman.conf so we can see if there's anything wrong there. To get it do
cat /etc/pacman.conf
. Then place it in the file as noted below.
Note: to provide the output do the following:
COMMAND > ~/command_output.txt
. Then you can copy those files to a usb drive via
cp ~/command_output.txt /path/to/usb
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You could also look into tools for "editing" a file in the command line. Maybe 'sed' can help there, not so sure myself. Perhaps you can do some kind of
cat /etc/pacman.conf | *command to replace/remove the Architecture line* > /etc/pacman.conf
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Hope this helps.
By the way: You change doesn't look so wrong if I am not mistaken. I wonder how this could screw things up this way?
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<yes, I did use the search on the forums... >
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shell expansion should expand this to
/etc/host.conf
/etc/hosts
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/ec/hosts.deny
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[options]
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#IgnoreGroup =
#NoUpgrade =
#NoExtract =
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#UseSyslog
#ShowSize
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# REPOSITORIES
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# - repositories listed first will take precedence when packages
# have identical names, regardless of version number
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# two lines. You can add preferred servers immediately after the header,
# and they will be used before the default mirrors.
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[extra]
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I'm a complete noob when it comes to installing (arch) linux. I just installed (a part of) arch linux to my old computer, but I'm stuck now.
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Pimmmo wrote:
I can only take pictures, because my arch linux is on an other computer.
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[root@n6re ~]#
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I've always wanted to know, what are the implications of adding new sources
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accusing the author of yaourt of anything at all, and think the product is great. But I just want to know if
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The order of repositories in the configuration files matters;
repositories listed first will take precedence over those listed later
in the file when packages in two repositories have identical names,
regardless of version number.
I tested this with a local repo and it appears to work as documented; pacman didn't prompt me to upgrade 'bash' to the newer version I had put in my test repo which was below [core] in pacman.conf.
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http://gmjones.org/tv/pacman.conf
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Thanks.
Last edited by chome4 (2012-01-16 15:10:09)

[core]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
Should be rather self explaining, it grabs the mirrors from /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist.
And for updating that list, there are two tools linked to on archlinux.org mainpage:
http://www.archlinux.org/mirrors/status/
http://www.archlinux.org/mirrorlist/

Pacman.conf NoUpgrade Wildcard

does pacman.conf 's NoUpgrade directive honor Wildcards ? IE: NoUpgrade = etc/packagename/*
I'm not willing to test this, as I just lost a large number of config files to a botched upgrade.
I reiterate, I am NOT WILLING to test this myself, as I don't have time to handle further data loss.
a simple yes or no answer and how you know is all I can use

Thank you for the concise response, Allan. I may just do that, djszapi. for now I have to finish cleaning up the mess I made

Pacman.conf kinda confused

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