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th0r

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Registered: 2010-06-05

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Cannot install GNOME. [SOLVED]

Trying to install GNOME. I'm a noob hence installing it on VMWare - Windows.
- Installed off archlinux-2009.08-core-x86_64.iso
- Updated pacman (#pacman -Syy)

http://i.imgur.com/jtNDI.jpg

What could be the problem?

Last edited by th0r (2010-06-06 04:35:01)

graysky

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Re: Cannot install GNOME. [SOLVED]

Did you try to remove the headers package?

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Nepherte

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Registered: 2008-09-09

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Re: Cannot install GNOME. [SOLVED]

Try installing linux-api-headers first, before installing gnome entirely.

jauthu

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Registered: 2010-02-01

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Re: Cannot install GNOME. [SOLVED]

maybe you mean making
#pacman -Syu
-Syy is wrong!

and maybe you need to say Yes when pacman asks for removing one of conflicting packages

wonder

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Re: Cannot install GNOME. [SOLVED]

pacman -Syu first and then pacman -S gnome

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ancient_archer

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Re: Cannot install GNOME. [SOLVED]

I would advice to reboot the computer, remove the CD and then trying to install the GNOME again from the net again.
It happened to me when I was installing Arch from the CD and the apparently new packages from the net had some conflicts with the old ones.

Or, of course try pacman -Syu as suggested first and then tell us if it works

Last edited by ancient_archer (2010-06-05 20:43:49)

Anikom15

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Re: Cannot install GNOME. [SOLVED]

Have you followed the Beginner's Guide?

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th0r

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Registered: 2010-06-05

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Re: Cannot install GNOME. [SOLVED]

Thanks for all the inputs guys.

Steps performed to resolve the issue:
- Rebooted the VM. (This was the key) =P
- #pacman -Syu
- #pacman -S gnome

Now installing extras.