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Dethredic

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Registered: 2009-01-24

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Error When Installing Gnome

So, this is my first time with arch (after 4 months in Ubuntu), and I followed the beginners guide to a tee.

I started installing gnome, but it was late, and it was taking much longer than expected, so I canceled the installation while stuff was still downloading and went to bed.

I woke up this morning and tried again, pacman -S gnome
It downloads a bunch of files then I get an error: file gtk2-2.14.7-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz is corrupted. Do you want to delete it. I said yes, then I get the error: gtk2-2.14.7-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz is invalid or corrupted.

I tried again, and said no, but I get the same error.

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defrysk

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From: Barrie, Ontario

Registered: 2008-12-15

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Re: Error When Installing Gnome

You seem to need a better mirror, read http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Mirrors , also clear your downloaded packages (cache) before trying again , as root do

pacman -Scc

Last edited by defrysk (2009-02-01 17:31:55)

skottish

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Re: Error When Installing Gnome

Welcome to the forums Dethredic.

Try changing the order of your mirrors in /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist and see if that helps.

Dethredic

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Re: Error When Installing Gnome

thanks guys.

I did:
rm /var/cache/pacman/pkg/gtk2-2.14.7-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz

then tried reinstalling, and it worked just fine.

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