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Hello am new to arch and I have it running in my laptop with the base installation. I have internet access. My question is were are the pacman repositories? I know i have to add them to /etc/pacman.conf but i havent been able to find them. HELP!
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Look in /etc/pacman.d
oz
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So I can get one(or all) of the ftp server in the pacman.d/current and add it to pacman.conf
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No, don't add them to /etc/pacman.conf... just uncomment the repos you want to use in pacman.conf like this:
[current]
# Add your preferred servers here, they will be used first
Include = /etc/pacman.d/current
[extra]
# Add your preferred servers here, they will be used first
Include = /etc/pacman.d/extra
oz
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you would replace
Include = /etc/pacman.d/extra
with
Server = ftp://ftp.something
but that way will only give you access to that one mirror while leaving the Include way, if one server is down, it will move onto the next.
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Pacman will use the servers at the top of the pacman.d lists first so if you get a slow server there, move one of the others to the top of the list.
oz
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ok, but when I run pacman such as 'pacman -S -l' it says syntax error
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the syntax error is in pacman.conf. Did you leave a trailing "/" at the end?
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ok, but when I run pacman such as 'pacman -S -l' it says syntax error
I don't think it will let you run pacman like that
I think you have to do
pacman -Sl
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Pacman works either way here.
pacman -Sl
pacman -S -l
Not sure, but I think Penguin might have hit on it with the trailing "/"
oz
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I finaly got things working. Pretty much I was typing wrong commands. But am happly running arch now in my laptop with xfce4.
Its great, my laptop boots up in about 24 secs, very nice, I love it. Thanks for all your help.
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