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nanodano

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Registered: 2006-11-06

Posts: 4

using pacman

Hi,
I'm having some trouble with my pacman. I boot up normally, and then I run dhcpcd -B. After I do that, I can start to ping named hosts like www.google.com. When I try to get any packages with pacman though it tells me it can not find the package I'm trying to install. It does this with any package I try. I checked my config file and the repositories are listed there. I'm not sure whats going on. I installed only the base Arch system. Any ideas?

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stonecrest

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From: Boulder

Registered: 2005-01-22

Posts: 1,190

Re: using pacman

Try a different mirror at the top of the files in /etc/pacman.d/*, maybe the mirror is bad.

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nanodano

Member

Registered: 2006-11-06

Posts: 4

Re: using pacman

i tried pacman -Syu and it updated my system

So, am I just issueing the wrong command?

pacman -A joe

is that incorrect to add the joe package?

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Dusty

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From: Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada

Registered: 2004-01-18

Posts: 5,986

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Re: using pacman

ah, yep, that's the wrong command.

You want pacman -S joe.

The -S stands for sync. The -A command is if you downloaded a name-ver-.pkg.tar.gz file from somewhere because its not in the repositories and you want to install it.

Dusty

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