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Pox

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From: Melbourne, AU

Registered: 2007-10-04

Posts: 66

Base Package Installation Fails

I've heard great things about archlinux, and my ubuntu install was getting mucked up with all the alphas i was installing through means other than apt (lols! apt!).  So I decided to have a shot at installing it last night.  I grabbed the 2007.08.1 BASE iso, burnt it, yes i checked the md5sum.

Installation went fine up until I said "Install packages": it came back with the following:

error: 'acl': not found in sync db

Yes, acl is the first package on the list, and yes, unselecting it causes the same error with the next package on the list.
I made sure to say DONE and not cancel when partitioning & setting mountpoints, and i could write to /mnt fine from TTY2, so I don't have a clue what the problem is.  I tried FTP install, then found out about the repo change.

Any ideas? TIA for any help.

ise

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From: Karlsruhe / Germany

Registered: 2005-10-06

Posts: 404

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Re: Base Package Installation Fails

Hi,
you could test the new isos. They are just RCs, but they should be usable.
You can find them here for both architectures: http://www.archlinux.org/~tpowa/rc-iso/

Daniel

Last edited by ise (2007-10-04 05:39:27)

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Pox

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From: Melbourne, AU

Registered: 2007-10-04

Posts: 66

Re: Base Package Installation Fails

ise: Thanks, I'll try the release candidate FTP version.  I figure if I get base, I'll have to pacman -Syu and download the latest versions anyway.

Pox

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From: Melbourne, AU

Registered: 2007-10-04

Posts: 66

Re: Base Package Installation Fails

Thanks, I just installed successfully with the RC FTP install ISO