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JatinKaushal

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Registered: 2015-07-10

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AUR Upgrade faild. Skipping all packages and could not connect to AUR

Hello. I'm using pacaur and whenever I do pacaur -Sua, I keep getting this output:

:: Starting AUR upgrade...
:: Could not connect to the AUR
:: Could not connect to the AUR
:: atom-editor is not present in AUR -- skipping
:: chromium-pepper-flash is not present in AUR -- skipping
:: cower is not present in AUR -- skipping
:: dee is not present in AUR -- skipping
:: emacspeak-git is not present in AUR -- skipping
:: flatplat-theme is not present in AUR -- skipping
:: gpodder3 is not present in AUR -- skipping
:: gtk-theme-arc is not present in AUR -- skipping
:: imagewriter is not present in AUR -- skipping
:: libappindicator-gtk2 is not present in AUR -- skipping
:: libdbusmenu-glib is not present in AUR -- skipping
:: libdbusmenu-gtk2 is not present in AUR -- skipping
:: libdbusmenu-gtk3 is not present in AUR -- skipping
:: libindicator-gtk2 is not present in AUR -- skipping
:: libindicator-gtk3 is not present in AUR -- skipping
:: libunity is not present in AUR -- skipping
:: luv-icon-theme-git is not present in AUR -- skipping
:: orca-git is not present in AUR -- skipping
:: pacaur is not present in AUR -- skipping
:: papirus-icon-theme-gtk is not present in AUR -- skipping
:: python2-mygpoclient is not present in AUR -- skipping
:: tclx is not present in AUR -- skipping
:: transmission-csd is not present in AUR -- skipping
there is nothing to do

It says on the top that it could not connect to the AUR. I don't know why, so can't anyone help me? Also, I don't know what log files or configs to provide you, so please ask and I'll post ASAP. Thank you so much

Alad

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Re: AUR Upgrade faild. Skipping all packages and could not connect to AUR

https://github.com/rmarquis/pacaur/wiki/Bug-reports

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eschwartz

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Registered: 2014-08-08

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Re: AUR Upgrade faild. Skipping all packages and could not connect to AUR

I've never actually bothered to figure out why... but since everyone always says pacaur is so much better than yaourt, I tried it out once or twice...

pacaur relies on cower to find things on the AUR. And apparently cower just doesn't want to work for me as it always triggers that error where some or all of the packages it searches for aren't found due to connection errors.
yaourt never had that problem. :shrug:

As I was perfectly happy with yaourt, I stopped trying to use pacaur.

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whitelight999

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Re: AUR Upgrade faild. Skipping all packages and could not connect to AUR

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Last edited by whitelight999 (2016-10-15 17:31:43)

Alad

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Re: AUR Upgrade faild. Skipping all packages and could not connect to AUR

I've never actually bothered to figure out why... but since everyone always says pacaur is so much better than yaourt, I tried it out once or twice...

The false dichotomy between yaourt and pacaur is almost as annoying as the one between sysvinit and systemd. None of it is relevant to this thread however, which is about a specific pacaur/cower issue.

How do AUR helpers know if there is an update?

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AurJson

Last edited by Alad (2016-09-08 21:46:10)

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eschwartz

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Re: AUR Upgrade faild. Skipping all packages and could not connect to AUR

It uses ${epoch:+$epoch:}$pkgver-$pkgrel obtained via the AUR RPC interface.

Last edited by eschwartz (2016-09-08 21:53:49)

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eschwartz

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Re: AUR Upgrade faild. Skipping all packages and could not connect to AUR

I've never actually bothered to figure out why... but since everyone always says pacaur is so much better than yaourt, I tried it out once or twice...

The false dichotomy between yaourt and pacaur is almost as annoying as the one between sysvinit and systemd. None of it is relevant to this thread however, which is about a specific pacaur/cower issue.

Well, I don't know why pacaur didn't work for me, I just know it displayed the exact same issue as the OP has. And yaourt instead worked fine.

I only mentioned the false dichotomy because I see it as mildly ironic (peoples' strongly stated bias in favor of pacaur didn't help me, now did it? I prefer just using what works for me, and I wouldn't mention anything except it seems the OP has the same issue.)

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Spyhawk

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Registered: 2006-07-07

Posts: 485

Re: AUR Upgrade faild. Skipping all packages and could not connect to AUR

A few pointers:

* #264 (this would be my first guess)
* #345
* #458

Eschwartz> If cower has trouble checking the AUR, this is likely due to a DNS server misconfigured that makes cower threads go crazy (see #358). Nowaydays, pacaur doesn't rely on cower for update check anymore (due to the fair amount of users that can't help themselves), but curl issues might still show up.

The false dichotomy between yaourt and pacaur is almost as annoying as the one between sysvinit and systemd. None of it is relevant to this thread however, which is about a specific pacaur/cower issue.

Agree. I still believe helpers that aren't part of the "green trio" are complete crap though.

Last edited by Spyhawk (2016-09-08 22:31:58)