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#1 2012-01-23 00:51:44

cdprincipe
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Registered: 2011-11-29
Posts: 22

[SOLVED]Error with pacman -Sb package

whenever I try to install any package from source with

pacman -Sb anypackage

I get the error

error: failed to initialize alpm library (could not find or read directory)

some details

[diego@Arch ~]$ pacman -Tv
Root      : /
Conf File : /etc/pacman.conf
DB Path   : /var/lib/pacman/
Cache Dirs: /var/cache/pacman/pkg/  
Lock File : /var/lib/pacman/db.lck
Log File  : /var/log/pacman.log
GPG Dir   : /etc/pacman.d/gnupg/
Targets   : Nessuno
[diego@Arch ~]$ locate libalpm
/usr/lib/libalpm.a
/usr/lib/libalpm.so
/usr/lib/libalpm.so.7
/usr/lib/libalpm.so.7.0.1
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/libalpm.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/libalpm.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/libalpm.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/libalpm.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/libalpm.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/libalpm.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/libalpm.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/libalpm.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/libalpm.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/libalpm.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/libalpm.mo
/usr/share/locale/kk/LC_MESSAGES/libalpm.mo
/usr/share/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES/libalpm.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/libalpm.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/libalpm.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/libalpm.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/libalpm.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/libalpm.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/libalpm.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/libalpm.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/libalpm.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr@latin/LC_MESSAGES/libalpm.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/libalpm.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/libalpm.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/libalpm.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/libalpm.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/libalpm.mo
/usr/share/man/man3/libalpm.3.gz

Last edited by cdprincipe (2012-01-23 08:54:46)

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#2 2012-01-23 00:56:24

jasonwryan
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Re: [SOLVED]Error with pacman -Sb package

Similar issue: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 9#p1045719

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#3 2012-01-23 00:57:55

cdprincipe
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Re: [SOLVED]Error with pacman -Sb package

jasonwryan wrote:

isn't the same error. Try yourself to run
pacman -Sb gimp

Last edited by cdprincipe (2012-01-23 00:59:08)

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#4 2012-01-23 01:00:57

falconindy
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From: New York, USA
Registered: 2009-10-22
Posts: 4,111
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Re: [SOLVED]Error with pacman -Sb package

No, it is the same error. Go read the manpage and look at what -b does.

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#5 2012-01-23 01:03:37

cdprincipe
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Posts: 22

Re: [SOLVED]Error with pacman -Sb package

has been changed!

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#6 2012-01-23 01:14:58

Allan
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From: Brisbane, AU
Registered: 2007-06-09
Posts: 11,672
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Re: [SOLVED]Error with pacman -Sb package

cdprincipe wrote:

has been changed!

Nope...   pacman never was able to build from source.

PGP Key: F99FFE0FEAE999BD | I develop pacman - buy me a drink!

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#7 2012-01-23 01:16:35

cdprincipe
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Re: [SOLVED]Error with pacman -Sb package

Sorry, SOLVED

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#8 2012-01-23 08:54:28

cdprincipe
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Re: [SOLVED]Error with pacman -Sb package

I solved the problem: is a feature of yaourt not pacman.

yaourt -Sb vlc

This command installs VLC from source of repository

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