Pacman not detecting core and extra repositories

psathiya1987 · 2012-06-09 12:00:45

Yesterday, I installed yaourt and pacman-color. After installing these, my pacman doesnot find most of the packages(cups,firefox,zip,unzip,unrar).

Specifically, when I search using pacman "pacman -Ss" I get results only from the community and not from core and extra.

When I search for firefox or the above mentioned packages, I get "error: target not found: firefox"

I checked the pacman.conf file, community and core repos are uncommented only. There is no error in pacman log also. I have uninstalled yaourt and pacman-color for now. But still the issue persists.

I ran the command "pacman -Syyu" but still not detecting the packages.

Not sure this info helps, but the extra.db file in /var/lib/pacman/local has a size of 0 while the other files are not size 0. Please advice

SS4 · 2012-06-09 12:08:07

psathiya1987 wrote:

I checked the pacman.conf file, community and core repos are uncommented only. There is no error in pacman log also. I have uninstalled yaourt and pacman-color for now. But still the issue persists.
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It looks like you have extra commented so pacman is being told not to look at it. Out of interest how do you know core isn't working? Have you tried searching for a package in core - eg:

\pacman -Ss coreutils

Can you post your pacman.conf please?

woomia · 2012-06-09 13:34:24

I am having a similar problem on a fresh install. Core and Community are searched only, Extra is not detected. It is uncommented in /etc/pacman.conf.

Inxsible · 2012-06-09 13:52:51

please search the forums. There are at least half a dozen threads on this.

short answer : try different mirrors.

closing..

Arch Linux

#1 2012-06-09 12:00:45

Pacman not detecting core and extra repositories

#2 2012-06-09 12:08:07

Re: Pacman not detecting core and extra repositories

#3 2012-06-09 13:34:24

Re: Pacman not detecting core and extra repositories

#4 2012-06-09 13:52:51

Re: Pacman not detecting core and extra repositories

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