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justsomeguy

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Registered: 2015-04-26

Posts: 1

ncurses dependency cycle

# wifi-menu

# parted /dev/sda

// I do not elect to create swap due to ample RAM

(parted) mklabel gpt
(parted) mkpart primary fat32 1MiB 512MiB
(parted) set 1 boot on

// I'm using a 60GB SSD. 537MiB to 100% is partitioned because 513MiB to 100%   gives a waarning that the "closest location we can manage is 537MB to 60GB

(parted) mkpart primary fat32 537MiB 100%

# mkfs.vfat -F32 /dev/sda1
# mkfs.vfat -F32 /dev/sda2

/
/ No swap to activate

# mount /dev/sda2 /mnt
# mkdir -p /mnt/boot
# mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/boot

// Skipping mirror selection
// I will soon run into my issue installing Arch.  It is a dependency cycle per similar issues found at https://bugs.archlinux.org/

# pacstrap -i /mnt base base-devel

//The last four lines of output of the above command are:
//error: failed to update community (download library error
//error:  failed to synchronize any databases
//error:  failed to init transaction (download library error)
//==> ERROR: Failed to install packages to new root

//What's odd is when I was having an issue yesterday at the command above I got an error that ncurses would be installed before its bash dependency, and the base programs were listed 1-50.  I could not install because of the dependency cycle.  At that time I had partitioned / as ext3 with vfat file system
//I read online that this may be caused by an outdated system or issues with the keyring.  So I was going about something with pacman-key and got a dirmgr error which was solved by dirmngr </dev/null

Last edited by justsomeguy (2015-04-26 23:10:57)

jasonwryan

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From: .nz

Registered: 2009-05-09

Posts: 30,424

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Re: ncurses dependency cycle

Please use code tags when pasting to the boards: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fo … s_and_code

If you don't select a mirror, how do you expect to download anything?

Moving to NC...

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