pacman package name inconsistent problem

samp · 2008-02-23 16:32:18

greetings!!

i recently installed archlinux with a core distro, however when i try to install some packages using pacman , it always meet some problems in downloading package files. for example, when i issued the following command

# pacman -Sy
# pacman -S packagename

the pacman will show me a error message like this:

Failed downloading /linux/........./packagename-1.1.1.pkg.tar.gz
from mirror.some.host: HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found

i compared the package file name listed in the package.txt of the source folder, and find that the packagename is actually different from the filename that pacmand requested.

say, the package file name in the server is package-1.1.1.i686.pkg.tar.gz, but what pacman trying to get is package-1.1.1.pkg.tar.gz

could you please tell me how can i sync up the package file list with the server?????

Thanks a lot in advance..

toofishes · 2008-02-23 16:39:50

Looks like you need to upgrade to a newer version of pacman- there are threads similar to this one that describe the process more in detail if you can't do the sync the normal way.

samp · 2008-02-25 04:37:25

thank you toofishes

I have manually downloaded the package files that required by pacman , and renamed them by removing "i686" between filename and ".pkg.tar.gz", and it worked nicely, after upgraded pacman, everything become just fine.
but after doing that, i met an unexpected kernel panic after reboot. please refer to the following thread.
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=44468

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#1 2008-02-23 16:32:18

pacman package name inconsistent problem

#2 2008-02-23 16:39:50

Re: pacman package name inconsistent problem

#3 2008-02-25 04:37:25

Re: pacman package name inconsistent problem

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