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btitus

Member

Registered: 2010-09-29

Posts: 6

[Solved] "Failed retrieving file"

Just thought I would share my experience with this, since I didn't happen to find this particular solution on the forum.

For a week I was getting Pacman error messages "failed retrieving file" when trying to install some packages (like mplayer), though I was able to install other packages.
Pacman was returning the same error from multiple mirrors.
But after running the rankmirrors script as described in the "beginners' guide" in the Arch Wiki, I'm able to install the packages.

Maybe this is obvious to more experienced users. As a new user, I very much appreciate all the detailed info on the Arch Wiki, and the forums.

Thanks all!

Laurent

Member

From: Belgium

Registered: 2009-02-07

Posts: 36

Re: [Solved] "Failed retrieving file"

Thanks a lot ;-]

It was just that what I was looking for =þ