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Frabato

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Registered: 2007-10-24

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[SOLVED] systemd (systemd-sysvcompat) cannot be installed

Well this is an old topic from this post:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=148042
however, this is a clean install from the latest release archlinux-2012.11.01-dual.iso
the solution: pacman -R sysvinit initscripts; isn't doing anything for me.
All I've done is to: mount /dev/sda2 /mnt and then tried: pacstrap /mnt base base-devel

I can't imagine that this hasn't been answered somewhere but for the life of me I can't find it.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Last edited by Frabato (2012-11-13 10:47:07)

Trilby

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Re: [SOLVED] systemd (systemd-sysvcompat) cannot be installed

sysvinit and initscripts are not on the newest isos, so there is no surprise that they cannot be removed.

What is the actual error you are getting?

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WonderWoofy

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Registered: 2012-05-19

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Re: [SOLVED] systemd (systemd-sysvcompat) cannot be installed

Have you checked to see if those packages are on your system in the first place?  Use -Q.  If you just installed you should ahve systemd-sysvcompat already and not have initscripts or sysvinit unless you went through the trouble of installing it manually.

Edit: Too slow!  BTW, Trilby, the iso's don't have any packages at all on them anymore.  Everything is done via net install.  I think it actually makes a lot of sense to do it that way, since Arch Linux is a distro that begs to be updated... so I would hope that anyone installing Arch would be doing so on a machine with at least occasional intenet connectivity.

Last edited by WonderWoofy (2012-11-13 03:35:15)

Frabato

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Registered: 2007-10-24

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Re: [SOLVED] systemd (systemd-sysvcompat) cannot be installed

Thanks for your replies. I forgot to format the partition!