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jfca283

Member

From: Santiago, Chile

Registered: 2007-10-09

Posts: 177

the package exist on server, but i can't find it on pacman?

the package name is
r-2.6.0-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz
it is on ftp.ibiblio.org
i have enabled on my repositories that server
but when i do a
pacman -Ss r-2.6.0-1
i get nothing
so, how do i install it from packman?
how do i seach it?

fwojciec

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Registered: 2007-05-20

Posts: 1,411

Re: the package exist on server, but i can't find it on pacman?

use package name only without the version.
"pacman -Ss r" -> kind of useless because it will find all packages that have "r" in them...
but you should be able to install with "pacman -S r"

byte

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From: Düsseldorf (DE)

Registered: 2006-05-01

Posts: 2,046

Re: the package exist on server, but i can't find it on pacman?

pacman -Ss ^r$

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jfca283

Member

From: Santiago, Chile

Registered: 2007-10-09

Posts: 177

Re: the package exist on server, but i can't find it on pacman?

thanks byte
it worked
with
pacman -Ss r i get a lot of package, i couldn't even read the whole list of them
thanks again