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ppali

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Registered: 2021-08-01

Posts: 3

aur package installation commands fail with 404 error

when installing anything from aur,
> yay -S ttf-symbola
I am getting the 404 errors:
==> ERROR: Failure while downloading https://dn-works.com/wp-content/uploads … ymbola.pdf
    Aborting...

pacman installations work normally

tried paru: the same issue

refreshed mirrorlist using reflector: no change

read diffs, one discord channel, searched web.

verified my ufw settings: Default: deny (incoming), allow (outgoing), disabled (routed)

Any hints on how to proceed?.

Thank you,
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Last edited by ppali (2024-11-03 14:53:16)

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

Posts: 12,079

Re: aur package installation commands fail with 404 error

Upstream removed the file, nothing to do with your system.

ppali

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Registered: 2021-08-01

Posts: 3

Re: aur package installation commands fail with 404 error

Thank you.
I found the *hints* confirming your answer in comments under https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ttf-symbola.

I did not expect this, because:
"paru -Ss ttf-symbola" shows presence of the package in aur:
>aur/ttf-symbola 14.00-1 [+103 ~0.81]
>Font for symbol blocks of the Unicode Standard (TTF)

I managed to install these fonts after extracting from a pdf using mupdf-tools.

loqs

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Registered: 2014-03-06

Posts: 18,032

Re: aur package installation commands fail with 404 error

I did not expect this, because:
"paru -Ss ttf-symbola" shows presence of the package in aur:
>aur/ttf-symbola 14.00-1 [+103 ~0.81]
>Font for symbol blocks of the Unicode Standard (TTF)

The PKGBUILD is in AUR and paru obtained the PKGBUILD from AUR without issue. The error was in attempting to download the first entry in the source array https://dn-works.com/wp-content/uploads … ymbola.pdf. Using an AUR helper obscures these differences to you.