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solatic

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Registered: 2011-04-10

Posts: 7

[solved] pacman doesn't find packages despite repository sync?

After doing a good old
$ pacman -Syy

I'm trying to install libreoffice, with
$ pacman -S libreoffice

and I get a "target not found" error. I also tried to install yaourt (this is a new install) from the archlinuxfr repository, and although it sees yaourt it says it needs yajl 2.0 or later to work now. I can see from the wiki that the official version of yajl on the repositories is, indeed, 2.0.1-1, but running
$ pacman -S yajl

only offers to install yajl-1.0.9-3.  Same problem with firefox; pacman will only install firefox 3.6.8-1 and not the latest 4.0-1.

It seems to me like pacman -Syy isn't updating my sync repositories databases thingies properly, any idea how to fix it? pacman -Syu reports that all the package repositories are up-to-date and that there's nothing to do.

Last edited by solatic (2011-04-29 02:12:48)

sand_man

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From: Australia

Registered: 2008-06-10

Posts: 2,164

Re: [solved] pacman doesn't find packages despite repository sync?

I guess your mirror is bad.
-Syy will sync with what's on the mirror. If it is saying a certain package is not available or is old then the mirror is no good. If you don't believe that to be true then you can always browse to the repo via http or ftp and see if the package is listed there or not.

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solatic

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Registered: 2011-04-10

Posts: 7

Re: [solved] pacman doesn't find packages despite repository sync?

Thanks for the help - switched to the global mirror and that fixed it. Seems like some of the official American mirrors are screwed up.