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eenewbie

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Registered: 2012-01-27

Posts: 4

AUR issues

Hi all, this just happened to me today.  I don't seem to be able to do anything with AUR.  Tried upgrading packages and installing new ones.  Tried using yaourt and packer without success.  Packer's error below.  Can anyone help?  Cheers.

:: Starting full aur upgrade...

Aur Targets    (1): dropbox

Proceed with installation? [Y/n] y

tar: This does not look like a tar archive

gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
/usr/bin/packer: line 283: cd: dropbox: No such file or directory
No PKGBUILD found in directory.

oboedad55

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From: Baku

Registered: 2011-04-05

Posts: 392

Re: AUR issues

Hi all, this just happened to me today.  I don't seem to be able to do anything with AUR.  Tried upgrading packages and installing new ones.  Tried using yaourt and packer without success.  Packer's error below.  Can anyone help?  Cheers.

:: Starting full aur upgrade...

Aur Targets    (1): dropbox

Proceed with installation? [Y/n] y

tar: This does not look like a tar archive

gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
/usr/bin/packer: line 283: cd: dropbox: No such file or directory
No PKGBUILD found in directory.

I'm having the same problem.

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Meyithi

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From: Wirral, UK

Registered: 2009-06-21

Posts: 550

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Re: AUR issues

https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/28515

Yaourt and Packer currently broken, in fact all aur helpers that relied on compatability links and don't use correct JSON will be broken until either compat links are restored ot helpers are patched.

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ethail

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From: Spain

Registered: 2011-02-10

Posts: 225

Re: AUR issues

just FYI, cower (and pacaur because of cower) work.

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eenewbie

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Registered: 2012-01-27

Posts: 4

Re: AUR issues

Thanks all for ur quick responses.  Good to know it's not just me.  I'll keep this thread open until yaourt and packer updates solve the issue.  Cheers.

snoopcatt

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From: Russia

Registered: 2012-02-19

Posts: 8

Re: AUR issues

There is my small fix for yaourt: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 1#p1060031