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I'm new to Arch, and am setting it up on my work PC, but when I run "pacman -Sy xorg xf86-video-intel", the following packages fail to download:
xorg-fonts-100dpi-1.0.1-i686.pkg.tar.gz
xorg-fonts-75dpi-1.0.1-2-i686.pkg.tar.gz
The message is:
error: failed retrieving file <filename> from <mirror> : Connection timed out
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warning: failed to retrieve some files from extra
error: failed to commit transaction (Connection timed out)
Errors occured, no packages were upgraded.
I have tried using a number of mirrors, but the same error occurs each time. The other packages download successfully.
I'm not sure if this is a terrible breach of etiquette (sorry if it is!), but after a week of trying to get this working, I tried using the ftp.archlinux.org mirror for the two packages above. This mirror gives a different error:
error: failed retrieving file <filename> from <mirror> : File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)
Is anyone else experiencing the same problem, and is there any way to resolve this?
Many thanks in advance!
Last edited by esuhl (2009-10-30 16:00:02)
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Well... I have managed to manually download the ...pkg.tar.gz files from one of the mirrors (so I have no idea why pacman can't).
Is there any way I can get pacman to use the files I downloaded, rather than trying to download the packages itself?
Thanks!
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Okay! I've done it.... sort of.
I browsed to one of the mirrors in a web browser (on another PC), downloaded the 2 problematic ...pkg.tar.gz files, and copied them to /var/cache/packman/pkg. Running "pacman -S xorg xf86-video-intel" then worked and installed the files!
So if anyone else is having similar problems - hopefully you can work round the issue in the same way.
However... I still don't know why pacman couldn't download the files in the first place. The mirror was working, the files on the mirror were valid, and pacman could happily download and install the other packages I needed. If anyone has any suggestions, I'd love to hear them!
Thanks
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The problem has occurred again for different packages. I have tried using pacman for several day, but it failed on updating the same file each time.
Again, I have used the same connection to use a web browser to download the file, and the problem exists whichever mirrors I use in the pacman mirror file.
However, I set pacman to use wget to download the files, and this seems to have resolved the issue (and is less fiddly than downloading the files individually as I mention in the post above).
Instructions for getting pacman to use wget are here:
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Imp … oad_speeds
I hope this helps someone (is anyone even reading this?!)
:-)
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