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grocal

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Registered: 2008-04-09

Posts: 3

[Voodoo 0.8] How to upgrade fresh Voodoo 0.8 to current version?

I bought VPS and asked for Archlinux to be installed. Unfortunately they have Archlinux Voodoo (0.8) installed. There's a 2.9.8 Pacman there and it doesn't want to upgrade itself.

# pacman -Syu
:: Synchronizing package databases...
:: current is up to date
:: extra is up to date
:: Replace mktemp with coreutils from "current"? [Y/n] Y
:: Replace slocate with mlocate from "current"? [Y/n] Y
:: Replace util-linux with util-linux-ng from "current"? [Y/n] Y

:: pacman has detected a newer version of the "pacman" package.
:: It is recommended that you allow pacman to upgrade itself
:: first, then you can re-run the operation with the newer version.
::
:: Upgrade pacman first? [Y/n] Y
error: unresolvable dependencies:
  pacman: requires gcc-libs but it is not in the sync db
  pacman: requires libarchive>=2.4.17 but it is not in the sync db
  pacman: requires libdownload>=1.3 but it is not in the sync db

kendosperling

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From: Dresden

Registered: 2007-08-28

Posts: 49

Re: [Voodoo 0.8] How to upgrade fresh Voodoo 0.8 to current version?

Just get the needed packages (gcc-libs,libarchive, libdownload) from some mirror.
For example ftp://ftp.hosteurope.de/mirror/ftp.arch … re/os/i686.
Install them with pacman -U pathtoyourfile
and Upgrade as before.