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#1 2011-09-22 16:37:20

lynng1124
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[SOLVED] pacman can't find new packages

When I tried to install xorg-server, pacman couldn't find it, and running pacman -Ss didn't return any results.
I've also tried to run pacman -Syy multiple times, but every time it says that the package databases it downloads are only 2.2K in size. 
I also double checked to make sure I was connected to the internet, and everything there was fine, but pacman still can't seem to find any packages.

Any ideas?

Last edited by lynng1124 (2011-09-22 18:21:11)

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#2 2011-09-22 16:38:15

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Re: [SOLVED] pacman can't find new packages

What mirror are you using?


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#3 2011-09-22 16:38:20

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Re: [SOLVED] pacman can't find new packages

Use an up-to-date mirror.

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#4 2011-09-22 16:43:11

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Re: [SOLVED] pacman can't find new packages

I've tried several different mirrors, even using the same ones that I'm using on a different computer that are working properly.

These are the mirrors I'm currently using:

http://gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
http://mirrors1.kernel.org/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
http://mirror.rit.edu/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
http://mirrors.rutgers.edu/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch

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#5 2011-09-22 16:46:34

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Re: [SOLVED] pacman can't find new packages

have you enabled the repositories in pacman.conf, although by default the extra and core should be enabled. But it might be worth checking.


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#6 2011-09-22 16:47:54

lynng1124
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Re: [SOLVED] pacman can't find new packages

Yes, I have core, extra, community, and multilib uncommented.

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#7 2011-09-22 17:36:29

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Re: [SOLVED] pacman can't find new packages

lynng1124 wrote:

I've also tried to run pacman -Syy multiple times, but every time it says that the package databases it downloads are only 2.2K in size.

Sounds like you're not getting what you think. Are you behind a proxy? I bet if you look at the contents of /var/lib/pacman/sync/core.db it isn't going to be the actual database, as our databases are quite a bit larger:

$ ll /var/lib/pacman/sync/
total 1.4M
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 455K Sep 22 08:31 community.db
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  56K Sep 19 07:04 core.db
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 823K Sep 21 17:10 extra.db

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#8 2011-09-22 18:03:14

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Re: [SOLVED] pacman can't find new packages

Pastebin the output of pacman -Syy --debug .

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#9 2011-09-22 18:20:50

lynng1124
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Re: [SOLVED] pacman can't find new packages

toofishes, you were right. I was having problems connecting to the internet on my University's network.

Thanks for all of your help!

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