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rnarch

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Registered: 2012-03-17

Posts: 292

Cannot install Picasa [SOLVED]

I have downloaded and untarred the tarball of picasa from AUR. On running the command 'makepkg -s' the output is as follows:

$ makepkg -s
==> Making package: picasa 3.0_5744.02-6 (Wed Nov  7 10:36:14 UTC 2012)
==> Checking runtime dependencies...
==> Checking buildtime dependencies...
==> Retrieving Sources...
  -> Downloading picasa-3.0-current.i386.rpm...
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
  0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:--  0:00:40 --:--:--     0^C
==> ERROR: Aborted by user! Exiting...

It gets stuck at 'Retrieving sources..' stage- it is not able to download the required files. I have tried this over last 3 days but I am not successful. Please help.

Last edited by rnarch (2012-11-08 11:26:21)

alexanderthegre

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Registered: 2012-07-29

Posts: 66

Re: Cannot install Picasa [SOLVED]

Check your internet connection. Is the URL in the 'source' line in the PKGBUILD correct?

ewaller

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From: Pasadena, CA

Registered: 2009-07-13

Posts: 19,769

Re: Cannot install Picasa [SOLVED]

I can get it from here

ewaller@odin:~/picasa 1013 %makepkg -g 
==> Retrieving Sources...
  -> Downloading picasa-3.0-current.i386.rpm...
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100 31.1M  100 31.1M    0     0   489k      0  0:01:05  0:01:05 --:--:--  336k
100 31.1M  100 31.1M    0     0   488k      0  0:01:05  0:01:05 --:--:--  488k  -> Found picasa.desktop
  -> Found picasa.patch
  -> Found LICENSE
  -> Found uninstall.html
==> Generating checksums for source files...
    
md5sums=('5990be842062ca483239c9f1efca9614'
         'e0a5175084fb7aaf7a245f5d02592f28'
         'bad017cdf6c9770f8ec5137def0503d8'
         '67353beb3a9fdc3bd51f2940fb1fc9f4'
         'd4b3ad9a34e037c97feaea7a63b16e5c')
ewaller@odin:~/picasa 1014 %

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rnarch

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Registered: 2012-03-17

Posts: 292

Re: Cannot install Picasa [SOLVED]

I checked the source URL and it is ftp which my iptables firewall is stopping. I checked on how to open iptables for ftp. But I do not know if this connection is a "passive ftp" or an "active ftp"?