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halfling

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Registered: 2013-01-29

Posts: 2

pacman cannot find some packages

Hi, I'm relatively new to arch linux, and I'm installed it and am I logged in. But I try to install xarchive from the package manager, it says "error: target not found: xarchive". I can see that is is listed here "https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/xarchive/".

I am logged in as root.
I called "pacman -S xarchive".

My /etc/pacman.conf is:
[options]
HoldPkg     = pacman glibc
SyncFirst   = pacman
Architecture = auto

CheckSpace

[core]
SigLevel = PackageRequired
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

[extra]
SigLevel = PackageRequired
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

[community]
SigLevel = PackageRequired
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

[multilib]
Include=/etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

chris_l

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Registered: 2010-12-01

Posts: 390

Re: pacman cannot find some packages

Doing "pacman -S package" is for packages from the official repositories. That xarchive is from AUR instead.

Read https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AU … g_packages for more info about installing AUR packages.

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halfling

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Registered: 2013-01-29

Posts: 2

Re: pacman cannot find some packages

Ah no wonder, thanks.

Stebalien

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Registered: 2010-04-27

Posts: 1,239

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Re: pacman cannot find some packages

Please mark this as solved by editing the first post and prepending "[SOLVED]" to the title.

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