pacman/yaourt pkg.tar.gz not found

spudnik1979 · 2008-12-20 14:46:47

Hi,

I have been using Ubuntu for a couple of years and have recently switched to Archlinux x86_64 (I am finding it much faster than ubuntu).

However, maybe I am missing something, but I do find that I get errors where a pkg.tar.gz is not on the mirror when using Yaourt -S apackage

Is there a way of getting yaourt or pacman to update its package lists?

Appreciate any help.

spudnik1979

Allan · 2008-12-20 15:02:28

"pacman -Sy" will update your package database. I assume yaourt has a similar command

windtalker · 2008-12-20 17:26:56

It does.

spudnik1979 · 2008-12-20 18:21:19

hi,

thanks for the tip, after doing a yaourt -Sy and then retrying my:

yaourt -S wine-git, I still get error saying that it cant find lib32-freeglut.

==> Determining latest git revision...
-> Version found: 20081220
==> Making package: wine-git 20081220-1 x86_64 (Sat Dec 20 18:19:04 PST 2008)
==> Checking Runtime Dependencies...
==> Installing missing dependencies...
lib32-freeglut package not found, searching for group...
error: 'lib32-freeglut': not found in sync db
==> ERROR: Pacman failed to install missing dependencies.
Error: Makepkg was unable to build wine-git package.

Does anyone know how to fix this?

If i do yaourt -Ss lib32-freeglut

it finds the package, but i still get the error.

spudnik1979 · 2008-12-20 18:25:54

hi,

It seems that yaourt wont install the dependencies that wine-git package requires, i keep getting the package not found in sync db error.

But if i do a yaourt -S dependencypkg for each package it can get past the package error. but it seems a little broken!

windtalker · 2008-12-20 18:35:24

The package may be available but not the dependencies for one reason or another.
An example would be the package you want has been upgraded, but another dev may be responsible for a dependancy and hasn't had time to upgrade it as of yet.
I'd leave well enough alone before you break something as it sounds like that's what is going on here.
You may be trying to make your package install and run with a lib that is the wrong version.

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#1 2008-12-20 14:46:47

pacman/yaourt pkg.tar.gz not found

#2 2008-12-20 15:02:28

Re: pacman/yaourt pkg.tar.gz not found

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