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foreverdante

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Searching through the AUR

I installed Arch on my work computer and we have a pretty locked down network. I am able to get to aur.archlinux.org in my browser, I am able to ping aur.archlinux.org; but I cannot, for some reason, do a yaourt, or a pacaur. So I am trying to search through the AUR for anything.. It doesn't matter what. And I keep getting the following error: "curl error: Peer certificate cannot be authenticated with given CA certificates"

Does anybody know how to fix this? It has been driving me crazy for a week now. I have already done a "update-ca-trust", made sure I am synchronized with our NTP server, added a .cer certificate to the /etc/ssl/certs/ directory and none of these steps have fixed the issue.

Last edited by foreverdante (2016-11-28 18:30:48)

Lone_Wolf

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Re: Searching through the AUR

Is this with the search on the AUR homepage, on https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ or on both ?

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philo

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Re: Searching through the AUR

Would this help:

https://www.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comm … w_install/

foreverdante

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Re: Searching through the AUR

@Lone_Wolf: No, I can search the AUR webpage all day long. I can download packages and install them manually. This only seems to happen when I am trying to search or install from the terminal

foreverdante

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Re: Searching through the AUR

@Philo: No, that didn't work :-/

philo

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Re: Searching through the AUR

I cannot, for some reason, do a yaourt, or a pacaur. .

 
Do you have both yaourt and pacaur installed?

Yaourt is not generally recommended.

You are not lost since you can download and install AUR packages manually, which is actually the recommended procedure.

Last edited by philo (2016-12-02 10:36:24)

foreverdante

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Re: Searching through the AUR

I have pacaur installed, and I absolutely love it. I use it over yaourt for everything. I haven't run into any compatibility issues with having them both installed.

foreverdante

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Re: Searching through the AUR

I am starting to wonder if it is because we have a self-signed CA certificate at work... I can search the AUR just fine in the terminal when I tether my phone to my computer :-/

philo

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Re: Searching through the AUR

What command do you type when fetching a package with pacaur?

foreverdante

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Re: Searching through the AUR

"pacaur -Ss powerline"

Just going to throw a random package out there.

It will search community and extra just fine, but when it gets to the AUR I get the following message: Peer certificate cannot be authenticated with given CA certificates

Last edited by foreverdante (2016-11-29 20:23:01)

foreverdante

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Re: Searching through the AUR

I've also made sure that my system clock and my hardware clock are synced to our NTP server

philo

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Re: Searching through the AUR

To retrieve and install, I do:

paraur -S <aurpkgname> 

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philo

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Re: Searching through the AUR

archlinuxfr is another well-known source of mischief if listed in  /etc/pacman.conf.

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Alad

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Re: Searching through the AUR

Not sure how this went from a curl error to some thread on aur helpers. In any case, did you upgrade your system with pacman 4.2 after the 23th of April?

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foreverdante

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Re: Searching through the AUR

@Alad: I just installed my Arch system later last week

eschwartz

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Re: Searching through the AUR

Not sure how this went from a curl error to some thread on aur helpers.

Because some community members have a pathological hatred of yaourt, to the point where half the time they are making nonsensical arguments, and the rest of the time they have gotten to the point of being boringly irrelevant?
Occasionally interspersed with actual incidents of people genuinely being clueless about the AUR due to encouragement from archlinuxfr.

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"yaourt" has become a trigger word for the peanut gallery. Even obliquely mentioning it is enough to potentially derail any thread.

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ewaller

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Re: Searching through the AUR

Because some community members have a pathological hatred of yaourt, ..."yaourt" has become a trigger word for the peanut gallery. Even obliquely mentioning it is enough to potentially derail any thread.

I can state with authority that the moderators hate it because it makes our tasks much harder. 

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eschwartz

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Re: Searching through the AUR

Because some community members have a pathological hatred of yaourt, ..."yaourt" has become a trigger word for the peanut gallery. Even obliquely mentioning it is enough to potentially derail any thread.

I can state with authority that the moderators hate it because it makes our tasks much harder. 

I am sure you would be in a position to know best. Although I would tend to think that clueless help vampires of the incompetent-yaourt-users variety will make your tasks much harder regardless, if not through yaourt then in some other way. At least you can sometimes identify them by their mention of archlinuxfr.

As for this thread, I am not really sure how "because yaourt" would cause that CA certificates error in curl/libcurl.
Since yaourt and pacaur (the sacred cow of yaourt-haters) both just use curl under the hood to download things, and that error message comes from curl.
And the OP was very clear that pacaur suffers the same problem.

Which I assume is the reason actual moderators had the good sense to not instinctively pin this one on yaourt.

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foreverdante

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Re: Searching through the AUR

@Eschwartz: Exactly... And like I said, I am able to tether my phone to my computer and I can pacaur just fine.. So I know it has something to do with our network. Now, I have a self-signed certificate that I am able to install... But everything that I have found online has been inconclusive. I've put the cert in /etc/ssl/certs... Did the trust "update-ca-trust" but to no avail.. I am just completely lost at this point

Slithery

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Re: Searching through the AUR

Does this work?

$ export CURL_CA_BUNDLE=/path/to/certificate
$ pacaur -Ss <package>

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foreverdante

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Re: Searching through the AUR

Nope :-/... I am still getting the same error.

Spyhawk

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Re: Searching through the AUR

Might be due to some older, alternative curl installed on the system (f.e. by anaconda).

foreverdante

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Re: Searching through the AUR

I checked curl and reinstalled it... Still nothing :-/..

This is becoming increasingly irritating lol