Arch Linux

Uzelth

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Registered: 2007-10-27

Posts: 13

Can't upgrade

My VPS provider seems to have installed a snapshot of Arch Linux before libdownload, libarchive, gcc-libs, etc were in the repositories (the repos according to this version are current, extras, community, release, unstable).

How would one go about upgrading the base system?

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~ Uzelth

zenlord

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From: Belgium

Registered: 2006-05-24

Posts: 1,181

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Re: Can't upgrade

I have no idea what you're talking about, but some time ago the repo's were re-organized and the current repo was ditched in favor of the core repo. Edit your pacman config so that all 'current'-links are replaced by 'core'-links and run a pacman -Syu.

If those extra packages are not automatically installed, you have to install them manually with pacman -S <name package>

Zl.

Sjoden

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From: WA

Registered: 2007-08-16

Posts: 380

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Re: Can't upgrade

Shouldn't a

pacman -Syy  pacman

and

pacman -Syyu

do the job?

-Zack

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turing

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From: Munich, Germany

Registered: 2006-12-10

Posts: 30

Re: Can't upgrade

Download all dependencies for pacman and pacman manually from the archlinux-ftp. Put them in one directory and run "pacman --upgrade <packages>". Replace packages with the full filenames of the packages.