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gunshot

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From: Bulgaria

Registered: 2006-09-01

Posts: 35

problems downloading koffice

I have used pacman many times and usually have no problems.

When i download some of the koffice packages (the large ones), pacman stops at 99%.
Hfter half an hour i pressed CTRL+C and tried again. it starts from 100%,101%,.... and stops at 199% (strange).
The same repeats many times. (I gave up at 400%).
This happened with 2 of the required for koffice files. One of them was koffice itself.

What causes this?
How to remove the junk files?
How to make a successful install?

Thank you.

byte

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From: Düsseldorf (DE)

Registered: 2006-05-01

Posts: 2,046

Re: problems downloading koffice

You could switch to another mirror or try XferCommand, see /etc/pacman.conf.

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gunshot

Member

From: Bulgaria

Registered: 2006-09-01

Posts: 35

Re: problems downloading koffice

i've deleted the broken files, changed the mirror and tried again.
the same thing happened with the large files.

could you explain this command, i would try it.

byte

Member

From: Düsseldorf (DE)

Registered: 2006-05-01

Posts: 2,046

Re: problems downloading koffice

Just uncomment the XferCommand line in /etc/pacman.conf. Then pacman won't use its internal routines and instead invoke wget for the download. Might help or not help but always worth a try.

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