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wsims

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Registered: 2010-04-15

Posts: 34

[SOLVED] Pacman can't find mediatomb

I've re-ranked my mirrors with "rankmirrors" a couple of times. Run Pacman -Syy to update, but for some reason mediatomb isn't found.
From what I can see, its supposed to be in the Community repo. I can find other packages in community, just not mediatomb.

Thoughts?

Last edited by wsims (2011-01-17 00:32:24)

Allan

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From: Brisbane, AU

Registered: 2007-06-09

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Re: [SOLVED] Pacman can't find mediatomb

Force a database refresh with "pacman -Syy"

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wsims

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Registered: 2010-04-15

Posts: 34

Re: [SOLVED] Pacman can't find mediatomb

I've tried "pacman -Syy" then pacman -S mediatomb, still nothing.

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

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Re: [SOLVED] Pacman can't find mediatomb

You can download it manually for the time being http://www.archlinux.org/packages/commu … /download/ (32-bit)

falconheart

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Registered: 2010-04-24

Posts: 9

Re: [SOLVED] Pacman can't find mediatomb

Rankmirrors only checks repos for speed, not accuracy. The repo you're trying to use might be out of date. Go here:

[url]http://www.archlinux.org/mirrorlist/[/url]

... to generate a fresh, up-to-date mirrorlist, then replace the contents of your old one with the results of this application (make sure you uncomment the "Server =" lines) and run rankmirrors again.
Now try installing mediatomb.

EDIT: Alternatively you can use the program Reflector to download an up-to-date one.
This is what I like to do:

sudo reflector -c %own% -l 50 -f 10 -r -o /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

This command downloads an up to date mirrorlist, filters them for your country of origin, filters it down to the 50 most up to date, the 10 fastest, and then calls rankmirrors to put those 10 fastest servers in order and outputs it directly to your mirrorlist file, ready to use.

One IMPORTANT point that I almost forgot to add! These mirrorlists use the $arch variable which will return an error if the Architecture option is not set in your pacman.conf file!

You can set it to your own architecture or to auto:

/etc/pacman.conf

Architecture = auto

Last edited by falconheart (2011-01-16 23:54:13)

wsims

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Registered: 2010-04-15

Posts: 34

Re: [SOLVED] Pacman can't find mediatomb

I've run reflector as you specified, and it looks like my mirrors we're not up to date. I'm doing a system upgrade, then will try mediatomb. I'm pretty sure it will find it this next time around. Thanks falconheart