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manish411

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Registered: 2012-01-14

Posts: 15

error:target not found

I installed archlinux using VirtualBox on Ubuntu 10.10
After installation when I try to install sudo using pacman I get an error

error:could not open file /var/file ....
error:target not found

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: error:target not found

Is this the exact error message? If not, please post the exact one.
Is /var mounted? Is there some space on it? Does the /var/file ... exist? Do you have problems with just sudo - can you install other packages?

Trilby

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Registered: 2011-11-29

Posts: 30,330

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Re: error:target not found

And did you do a update before trying to install sudo? (eg pacman -Syu)

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