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andromeda

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Registered: 2010-03-09

Posts: 6

Pacman issues [Solved]

I'm new to the Arch community but not to Linux. I've used CentOS for years in a commercial environment.

I am running Arch in VirtualBox and am attempting to install apache with little success I have access to the we as far as I know the mirrors are setup correctly according to the documentation I've read.

When I type: pacman -S apache

I get an error
apache package not found, searching for group...
Error: `apache`: not found in sync db

any help would be appreshiated

Last edited by andromeda (2010-03-09 20:16:15)

flamelab

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From: Athens, Hellas (Greece)

Registered: 2007-12-26

Posts: 2,160

Re: Pacman issues [Solved]

Are you sure you have synced with extra ? Post the output of pacman -Syy

bharani

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From: Karaikudi, India

Registered: 2009-07-12

Posts: 202

Re: Pacman issues [Solved]

Try running

pacman -Syy

first.Then run

pacman -S apache

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hullap

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From: New Delhi, India

Registered: 2008-08-17

Posts: 84

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Re: Pacman issues [Solved]

the package apache is in [extra] according to a quick pacman -Ss apache
do you have [extra] repo enabled in /etc/pacman.conf ?

EDIT: Woah.. too late.. :\

Last edited by hullap (2010-03-10 06:10:40)

andromeda

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Registered: 2010-03-09

Posts: 6

Re: Pacman issues [Solved]

I don't remember editing the extra repo at all and the out put file is below I will be doing a google search on the extra repo again thankyou for the help in advanced.

pacman -Syy output file

: Synchronizing package databases...
core            2.3k           567.2k/s 00:00:00
extra           2.3k           1067.5K/s 00:00:00
community   2.3k           1002.5K/s 00:00:00

thestinger

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From: Toronto, Canada

Registered: 2010-01-23

Posts: 478

Re: Pacman issues [Solved]

I think something is wrong with the mirror you're syncing with - my sync databases are a LOT bigger than that, you should change the mirror at the top of /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist to something else

gnome-unstable     18.3K
testing                  13.2K
core                     36.1K
extra                    445.1K
xyne-any               5.5K
community-testing  3.0K

andromeda

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Registered: 2010-03-09

Posts: 6

Re: Pacman issues [Solved]

I've changed mirrors and still no luck.

flamelab

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From: Athens, Hellas (Greece)

Registered: 2007-12-26

Posts: 2,160

Re: Pacman issues [Solved]

Move mir.archlinux.fr to the top.

Make sure that in pacman.conf, all repos "read" pacman.d/mirrorlist .

pacman -Syy

andromeda

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Registered: 2010-03-09

Posts: 6

Re: Pacman issues [Solved]

Ok I had all the mirrors uncommented at start I just started commenting  them little by little until it would update correctly. I can pull down apache but have another problem with dependencies but will start a new thread with that

Thank you all for the help.