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iouri.gordon

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Registered: 2017-11-27

Posts: 2

rpcgen missing

I did full update a few days ago. After that when trying to use rpcgen I get: bash: rpcgen: command not found.

Did it get removed?

eschwartz

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Registered: 2014-08-08

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Re: rpcgen missing

No it did not.

$ pkgfile --verbose --binaries rpcgen
extra/rpcsvc-proto 1.3.1-1	/usr/bin/rpcgen

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What you're thinking of is the fact that it's no longer provided by glibc. This is because we no longer build glibc with --enable-obsolete-nsl --enable-obsolete-rpc, see https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/pack … 6b1533d5ff

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tvale

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Registered: 2008-12-11

Posts: 175

Re: rpcgen missing

I believe it is now provided by libtirpc since it was removed from glibc.

Nevermind.

Last edited by tvale (2018-04-26 08:19:01)

Trilby

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Registered: 2011-11-29

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Re: rpcgen missing

No it did not [get removed]

...What you're thinking of is the fact that it's no longer provided by glibc.

Well, it wasn't removed from the repos.  But it sounds like the binary was indeed removed from the package it was formerly in, and if the OP updated their system without specifically installing rpcsvc-proto, it would not likely be pulled in by any of their current packages.  So `pacman -Syu` would indeed have removed rpcgen from the user's system.

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iouri.gordon

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Registered: 2017-11-27

Posts: 2

Re: rpcgen missing

Thank you. Installing rpcsvc-proto solved the issue