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lidlessey3

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Registered: 2020-06-06

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Pacman not finding any packges when summoned from a script

I recently installed arch on a new machine and pacman doesn't seem to work when I use it through a script, be it an aur helper or a mini script I wrote to reinstall packages I had on my old installation.
The error I get is error: the following package was not found: *pkg_name*.
But if I type sudo pacman -S *pkg_name* in a console it works fine.
I don't have this same problem on my old installation so I'm guessing I either miss configured something or am missing some optional dependancies, but I couldn't find anything on the topic by googling it.

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Last edited by lidlessey3 (2020-06-06 13:47:28)

Trilby

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Re: Pacman not finding any packges when summoned from a script

If you want help understanding why your script doesn't work, you're going to have to show us the script and post actual output.

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ewaller

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Re: Pacman not finding any packges when summoned from a script

Welcome to the Arch Linux forums.

As Tribly pointed out, you have provided us with no usable information.    Moving to Newbe corner for now.

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lidlessey3

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Registered: 2020-06-06

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Re: Pacman not finding any packges when summoned from a script

If you want help understanding why your script doesn't work, you're going to have to show us the script and post actual output.

The script was a very simple:
for program in $(cat program_list)
do pacman -S $program
done

as for the output is just
error: the following package was not found: *program name*

repeted over and over with all the programs in the list.
I also get the same issue when I try to use yay and it needs to install depencies from the official repositories.

loqs

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Registered: 2014-03-06

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Re: Pacman not finding any packges when summoned from a script

Please post the contents of program_list,  the invocation of the script file and the full output it produced,  in code tags.
You were running the script as root?
Edit:

$ cat ./test.sh 
for program in $(cat program_list)
do pacman -S $program
done
$ cat program_list 
base
$ chmod +x test.sh
$ ./test.sh 
error: you cannot perform this operation unless you are root.
# ./test.sh
warning: base-2-2 is up to date -- reinstalling
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...

Packages (1) base-2-2


:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] 

Last edited by loqs (2020-06-06 16:10:05)

Trilby

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Re: Pacman not finding any packges when summoned from a script

as for the output is just
error: the following package was not found: *program name*

Well that makes sense.  There is no such package "*program name*".

Of course I doubt that's actually the output.  But that's the only meaningful answer you can get until you post the information requested.

FWIW your script could just be a single pacman command with no loop, and definitely no cat is needed:

pacman -S - < program_list

Last edited by Trilby (2020-06-06 16:34:48)

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