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Hello forums of Archlinux. You may say I'm a 'newb' (this is my first post) but I saw a review of Archlinux by a YouTube channel named "This Week In Linux", and based on what he explain Archlinux seemed very well made, and what mattered more to me, customizable. I had been looking for a distro where I could just mold it to work for me.
Getting past that: I have a problem with pacman, which is keeping me from doing anything but using vi.
While attempting to install vim I got an error which boils down to:
error: could not find file in /var/lib/pacman/sync/*
error: target not found vimWhen I attempted to check the folder itself (the sync folder under pacman) I found that the sync folder wasn't there.
If anyone has any idea what's causing this, please tell me. I'd love to use the Arch distro, but I can't seem to get past this speedbump.
Thank you!
~Crockeo
P.S.
I forgot to mention, but I'm running this in a VirtualBox, just until I get familiar with it.
Last edited by Crockeo (2011-10-16 14:34:36)
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Have you run 'pacman -Syu' to update your system first?
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I didn't previously, but I just did and I got a [bold]giant[/bold] list of 'cannot connect' errors.
The 2 end errors were:
error: failed to update community (No address record)
error: failed to synchronize any databasesMight that have something to do with not being able to connect to the internet?
EDIT: I ran iwconfig and these are my results:
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.Last edited by Crockeo (2011-10-16 15:06:47)
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Did you read the wiki? It tells you how to setup your network. Yes, you need to have a working connection of some kind (be it wired or wireless) to update your system and install new packages.
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I did read around the wiki, but I'll check again.
Thank you for the help anyways. Hopefully I'll have it working in no time!
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