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tpfkanep

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From: South Africa

Registered: 2009-12-15

Posts: 121

warning: insufficient columns available for table display

pacman on two occassions displayed the message as per topic subject when doing an update.

pacman.conf

XferCommand = wget ...

# Misc options
TotalDownload
VerbosePkgLists

Informational message only?

jac

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From: /home/jac

Registered: 2009-05-19

Posts: 431

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Re: warning: insufficient columns available for table display

pacman reports that whenever the VerbosePkgLists table would be too wide to fit into your terminal. The output just falls back to the old method, as far as I know.

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: warning: insufficient columns available for table display

Make sure the terminal you run pacman in is wide enough.

Andrew Grasman

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Registered: 2021-05-26

Posts: 3

Re: warning: insufficient columns available for table display

It seems like you need to have 100 columns available, so increse the size of your terminal or zoom out/use a smaller font untill you have 100+ columns. You can check your number of columns with

echo $COLUMNS

(Bash and zsh at least, maybe other shells, I'm not sure).

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

Posts: 11,540

Re: warning: insufficient columns available for table display

I really doubt they're looking for a solution 9 years later, and it all depends on the packages, there's no set number of columns.

ewaller

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From: Pasadena, CA

Registered: 2009-07-13

Posts: 19,769

Re: warning: insufficient columns available for table display

Using this opportunity to close this old thread.

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