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JTD

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From: Port Moody,BC

Registered: 2006-06-26

Posts: 27

[Solved] Upgrading a single package

I am currently running Firefox3 3.0b3-2 and wish to upgrade to version 3.0b4-1.
I've read the man page for Pacman but when I try 'pacman -U firefox3' I get "cannot open package file"
Doing 'pacman -S firefox3' wants to re-install the original version (3.0b3-2).

I donot want to do a complete system upgrade at this point in time, so can someone please enlighten me?

To use "pacman -U" you need the package file downloaded the package file.

You probably want "pacman -Sy firefox3"  which will update your pacman database so you can find the new firefox version.  If not, wait on you mirror to sync.

Thanks Allan, worked like a charm.

JTD

Last edited by JTD (2008-03-11 02:34:58)

Allan

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From: Brisbane, AU

Registered: 2007-06-09

Posts: 9,939

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Re: [Solved] Upgrading a single package

To use "pacman -U" you need the package file downloaded the package file.

You probably want "pacman -Sy firefox3"  which will update your pacman database so you can find the new firefox version.  If not, wait on you mirror to sync.

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