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skottish

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Registered: 2006-06-16

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Re: Xiphos doesn't start

I also had the message that my version of sword (1.6.2-8) was newer than what was available. I thought that it was strange as I installed everything from the main repos and not through AUR.

I ended up running "pacman -Rs xiphos" and reinstalling. I'm now using 1.6.2-7 and Xiphos starts ok for me but it gives me the following message:

No matching local found for 'C'.
Book names and menus may not be translated.

Not sure what is going on there.

Check to make sure that you have your locale set properly.

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Since none of you had a consistent external repo where sword could have been pulled from, then it seems that there was a packaging error involved at some point. This means that all of you have should have been seeing a message when updating about the local copy of sword being newer than the version in the repos for a long time. The output of pacman is important and should be paid attention to.

angelsguitar

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From: Puerto Rico

Registered: 2010-11-07

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Re: Xiphos doesn't start

...This means that all of you have should have been seeing a message when updating about the local copy of sword being newer than the version in the repos for a long time. The output of pacman is important and should be paid attention to.

Indeed, that's what happened to me.  As soon as I reverted to the older sword version, everything feel into place.

Still, the advice about the unofficial repos is useful...thanks.

Last edited by angelsguitar (2012-04-29 22:06:00)

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From: Albany, NY

Registered: 2006-07-07

Posts: 638

Re: Xiphos doesn't start

Since none of you had a consistent external repo where sword could have been pulled from, then it seems that there was a packaging error involved at some point. This means that all of you have should have been seeing a message when updating about the local copy of sword being newer than the version in the repos for a long time. The output of pacman is important and should be paid attention to.

I use xiphos very frequently, so I'd wondered at the message regarding my local version. I don't use the svn packages and only very rarely dip into the AUR, though never for sword, xiphos or their dependencies. "Downgrading" worked for me, so I assumed it was as skottish notes, an error at some point in the verion numbering.

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