What did I do this time?

sajro · 2008-03-16 14:33:24

I was trying to install kdemod. Things weren't going too bad... then I get an error message about the core, community, and extra repositories not syncing. It says their config files aren't there, which is verified by "ls /etc/pacman.d," which only returns "mirrorlist."

Anyone know how to fix this? I'm diving headfirst into Arch (sink-or-swim tactic) and trying to learn the system. However, I'd like to be able to browse without using lynx.

Shaika-Dzari · 2008-03-16 15:02:07

Hello!

Maybe, you're using a bad mirror or something...

Post your mirrorlist:

cat /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

Did you upgrade before installing kdemod?

pacman -Syu

@+

sajro · 2008-03-16 15:21:21

I might have misrepresented...It's in a VM, and I don't have sendmail installed (or lynx, for that matter; I'm browsing with Firefox on Kubuntu) so I can't push the output of cat into a message to open and then copy/paste. Thus, I'd have to manually type out the list. However, I've made no modifications, so it is the default one.

tigrmesh · 2008-03-16 15:48:10

There have been some changes to pacman.conf. The separate repository files have been replaced by one - mirrorlist.

You probably have an pacman.conf.pacnew file in /etc. Merge any changes you made to pacman.conf (possibly mirrors, repositories enabled and NoUpgrade values) into pacman.conf.pacnew and rename it pacman.conf.

You probably have other config files that need to be merged. Do a:
ls -l /etc/*pac*

sajro · 2008-03-16 17:55:32

tigrmesh wrote:

There have been some changes to pacman.conf. The separate repository files have been replaced by one - mirrorlist.
You probably have an pacman.conf.pacnew file in /etc. Merge any changes you made to pacman.conf (possibly mirrors, repositories enabled and NoUpgrade values) into pacman.conf.pacnew and rename it pacman.conf.
You probably have other config files that need to be merged. Do a:
ls -l /etc/*pac*

Worked like a charm. Have KDEmod up and running and talking to you from Konqueror. This is what I did, exactly:

# ls -l /etc/*pac*
# cd /etc
# vi pacman.conf.pacnew
(added KDEmod repo)
# rm pacman.conf
# cp pacman.conf.pacnew pacman.conf
# pacman -Syu

tigrmesh · 2008-03-16 18:11:44

Excellent!

Misfit138 · 2008-03-16 22:54:18

In the future, please use a more appropriate thread title, and ammend [solved] to it if solved.

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