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Bestinbest

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Registered: 2020-11-28

Posts: 35

[Solved] Pacman can't find some packages

Hello everyone,

I recently reinstalled Archlinux on my old computer because I wanted to start again from scratch. So everything works fine, except when I run

 pacman -S popcorntime-bin 

pacman returns the following error :

 can't find target

. It did this for a fiew packages like libroffice for example.

So I went back to the wiki, and I used reflector to update the mirror list. Now some packages works but popcorntime-bin and sublime-text-4 doesn't, yet I suppose it should work, according to this link : https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/popcorntime-bin

Here is my mirror list file :

################################################################################
################# Arch Linux mirrorlist generated by Reflector #################
################################################################################

# With:       reflector @/etc/xdg/reflector/reflector.conf
# When:       2022-04-25 07:52:29 UTC
# From:       https://archlinux.org/mirrors/status/json/
# Retrieved:  2022-04-25 07:51:37 UTC
# Last Check: 2022-04-25 07:37:37 UTC

Server = https://archlinux.mailtunnel.eu/$repo/os/$arch
Server = https://mirror.theo546.fr/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
Server = https://mirror.moson.org/arch/$repo/os/$arch
Server = https://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
Server = https://mirror.osbeck.com/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
Server = https://archlinux.thaller.ws/$repo/os/$arch
Server = https://europe.mirror.pkgbuild.com/$repo/os/$arch
Server = https://phinau.de/arch/$repo/os/$arch
Server = https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/$repo/os/$arch
Server = https://mirror.cyberbits.eu/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
Server = https://mirror.chaoticum.net/arch/$repo/os/$arch
Server = https://mirror.f4st.host/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
Server = https://mirror.lty.me/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
Server = https://mirror.telepoint.bg/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
Server = https://arch.mirror.constant.com/$repo/os/$arch
Server = https://mirror.luzea.de/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
Server = https://archlinux.uk.mirror.allworldit.com/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
Server = https://america.mirror.pkgbuild.com/$repo/os/$arch
Server = https://archmirror.it/repos/$repo/os/$arch
Server = https://mirrors.tuna.tsinghua.edu.cn/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch

I have run

sudo pacman -Syyu

and everything always works :

:: Synchronisation des bases de données de paquets…
 core                                                                    158,2 KiB   522 KiB/s 00:00 [###########################################################] 100%
 extra                                                                  1699,2 KiB  4,45 MiB/s 00:00 [###########################################################] 100%
 community                                                                 6,6 MiB  5,02 MiB/s 00:01 [###########################################################] 100%
:: Début de la mise à jour complète du système…
 il n’y a rien à faire

I don't have a very expended knowledge on all that so maybe I miss something obvious x)
Thanks for answering

Last edited by Bestinbest (2022-04-25 12:45:29)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,097

Re: [Solved] Pacman can't find some packages

Those are user provided and unvetted AUR packages not repository packages, pacman can't handle those on it's own. See https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Arch_User_Repository for general information of what the AUR is and what you can expect from it.

Bestinbest

Member

Registered: 2020-11-28

Posts: 35

Re: [Solved] Pacman can't find some packages

Thanks a lot, after searching a bit I installed yay.