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ag3ntj0n

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Registered: 2009-07-06

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can't get the new firefox from repos [SOLVED]

i looked through all the pacman-for-newbies docs on the wiki, but i can't find anything to describe what i'm seeing here

so i see that firefox-3.5-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz is in ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/extra/os/x86_64/

however, pacman doesn't seem to be able to find it (it still shows firefox's version as 3.0.11-1):

[root@daisy jon]# pacman -Syy
:: Synchronizing package databases...
 core                      33.2K  412.0K/s 00:00:00 [##################################################################################################] 100%
 extra                    376.3K  410.3K/s 00:00:01 [##################################################################################################] 100%
 community                371.9K  368.5K/s 00:00:01 [##################################################################################################] 100%
[root@daisy jon]# pacman -Ss firefox
extra/firefox 3.0.11-1
    Standalone web browser from mozilla.org
extra/firefox-i18n 3.0.11-1
    Language packs for Firefox
extra/totem-plugin 2.26.2-1
    Totem mozilla/firefox plugin
community/arch-firefox-search 0.7-4
    Firefox Arch search engines (AUR, Pkgs, BBS, Wiki, etc.)
community/firefox-spell-pt-br 3.0.8-1
    Portuguese (Brazil) dictionary for Firefox
community/firefox-spell-ru 0.4.2-1
    Russian spellchecker dictionary for Firefox
community/mozplugger 1.12.1-1
    A Mozilla & Firefox multimedia plugin.
[root@daisy jon]#

i'm pretty sure my pacman.conf is the default; it looks like this:

[core]
# Add your preferred servers here, they will be used first
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

[extra]
# Add your preferred servers here, they will be used first
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

[community]
# Add your preferred servers here, they will be used first
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

...and here's my mirrors.list (i added the official repo just to make sure, and still nothing)

Server = http://mirror.archlinux.com.ve/$repo/os/x86_64
Server = http://archlinux.unixheads.org/$repo/os/x86_64
Server = ftp://mirror.cs.vt.edu/pub/ArchLinux/$repo/os/x86_64
Server = http://mirror.cs.vt.edu/pub/ArchLinux/$repo/os/x86_64
Server = ftp://mirrors.easynews.com/linux/archlinux/$repo/os/x86_64
Server = http://mirrors.easynews.com/linux/archlinux/$repo/os/x86_64
Server = ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/$repo/os/x86_64
Server = http://mirrors.gigenet.com/archlinux/$repo/os/x86_64
Server = ftp://ftp.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/linux/distributions/archlinux/$repo/os/x86_64
Server = http://www.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/linux/distributions/archlinux/$repo/os/x86_64
Server = ftp://mirrors.hosef.org/archlinux/$repo/os/x86_64
Server = http://mirrors.hosef.org/archlinux/$repo/os/x86_64
Server = ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/archlinux/$repo/os/x86_64
Server = http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/archlinux/$repo/os/x86_64
Server = ftp://locke.suu.edu/linux/dist/archlinux/$repo/os/x86_64
Server = ftp://mirror.rit.edu/archlinux/$repo/os/x86_64
Server = http://mirror.rit.edu/archlinux/$repo/os/x86_64
Server = http://schlunix.org/archlinux/$repo/os/x86_64
Server = http://mirror.sourceshare.org/archlinux/$repo/os/x86_64
Server = http://archlinux.umflint.edu/$repo/os/x86_64
Server = http://mirror.umoss.org/archlinux/$repo/os/x86_64

Last edited by ag3ntj0n (2009-07-07 01:12:00)

rson451

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Re: can't get the new firefox from repos [SOLVED]

Wait for your mirror to sync.

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sand_man

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Registered: 2008-06-10

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Re: can't get the new firefox from repos [SOLVED]

I'm not 100% sure how it works but I think pacman just picks up the first mirror in the list.
Try commenting out the top one, one at a time and do pacman -Syy again.

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Re: can't get the new firefox from repos [SOLVED]

@sand_man - http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=75496

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ag3ntj0n

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Registered: 2009-07-06

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Re: can't get the new firefox from repos [SOLVED]

I'm not 100% sure how it works but I think pacman just picks up the first mirror in the list.
Try commenting out the top one, one at a time and do pacman -Syy again.

yep, that worked!  thanks