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icabero0225

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Registered: 2016-07-17

Posts: 8

Pacstrap error: failed retrieving file

Before you all get mad at me, yes I do realize that many other people have had this problem. Yes, I have viewed their posts. Yes, I have tried their solutions, but nothing seems to work.

Basically, I have just gotten arch installed, I created my home and boot files, mounted my partitions, etc.

When I try to run pacstrap /mnt base base-devel, I get this error message

error: failed retrieving file [core.db/extra.db/community.db] from [mirror url] : Could not resolve host [mirror url]
error: failed to update [core.db/extra.db/community.db] (download library error)

This repeats for every url in my mirrorlist file.

Any ideas? If you have any questions about anything just ask and I'll answer.

Thanks,

Ignacio Cabero

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

Posts: 11,541

Re: Pacstrap error: failed retrieving file

Sounds like either your mirror list is bad or you aren't connected to the internet.

dockland

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From: Sweden

Registered: 2015-06-06

Posts: 861

Re: Pacstrap error: failed retrieving file

Might be a firewall/proxy setting if you are in a school or work environment, or, as stated a internet connection failure.  Can you ping google.com?

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prometheus069

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Registered: 2016-07-26

Posts: 26

Re: Pacstrap error: failed retrieving file

Might be a firewall/proxy setting if you are in a school or work environment, or, as stated a internet connection failure.  Can you ping google.com?

in addition to dockland:
if you cant ping out of your local net, make sure your dhcp lease is still active.

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