pacman not working

samrat94 · 2011-01-10 08:05:56

I just installed arch following the lifehacker tutorial. However all pacman commands result in an error message that the package was not found. Please help. I'm in deep trouble as now I cannot access Windows too!

jasonwryan · 2011-01-10 08:14:19

Installing from anything other than the Arch Wiki is a bad idea.

Go back to the Beginners' Guide, specifically the bit about pacman and start from there:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Be … ith_pacman

To get the most out of your Arch experience, read the documentation thoroughly. It always works™

samrat94 · 2011-01-10 16:34:34

Thanks for the info. but now that I've already installed it how am I supposed to fix the error? Because of GRUB now I am also unable to access Windows. btw is there some way to uninstall grub from within the arch-linux console and replace it with the windows bootloader?

karol · 2011-01-10 16:38:18

It's a fresh install so maybe you can simply install Arch again, using the guides from the Arch Wiki.

You shouldn't tinker with your system (be it Windows, Linux or any other) if you don't have a recent backup. If you do have one, you can use it now to restore your Windows to a working state.

Mr Green · 2011-01-10 16:41:47

If pacman is not working then it sounds like a network problem, assuming you are able to boot into Arch?

Maybe add an entry to grub to allow you to boot into windows,

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GR … th_Windows

IncredibleLaser · 2011-01-10 16:47:43

Did you do a pacman -Syu before trying to install anything else? Does your network connection work? Some more information might help us.

archman-cro · 2011-01-10 17:00:57

samrat94 wrote:

btw is there some way to uninstall grub from within the arch-linux console and replace it with the windows bootloader?

Doubt it. Use fixmbr from winblows for that.

Misfit138 · 2011-01-10 19:47:40

Don't panic. Your issue is certainly solvable with the help of the community.
GRUB is easily configurable to boot both GNU/Linux and WIndows-- it's in the wiki. Restoring the Windows bootloader (thereby overwriting and removing GRUB) is also quite trivial to accomplish.
We just need some more information, including exact commands and error messages, and what you want to do.

samrat94 · 2011-01-11 04:10:29

The errror message shown when I try to install something through pacman is-
Transient Resolver failure

I think the network connection isn't working- maybe that's the problem. I saw in the wiki that setting up a DSL connection requires another pacman installation(rp-pppoe) so should I try reinstalling?

samrat94 · 2011-01-11 04:20:39

The GRUB showed the dual-boot screen but this takes me to the recovery mode!! (using Windows Vista)

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Daniel_F · 2011-01-11 06:15:31

samrat94 wrote:

The GRUB showed the dual-boot screen but this takes me to the recovery mode!! (using Windows Vista)

in your

/boot/menu.lst

you probably have something like this:

title Windows Vista
root (hd0,0)
savedefault
makeactive
chainloader +1

edit it and change

root (hd0,0)

to

root (hd0,1)

if that doesn't work then please post the result of

sudo fdisk -l

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pacman not working

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