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Heya Arch Forums,
So it's my first time installing and I've made it to the point were I'm ready to install X11.
When I run "pacman -S xorg-server xorg-xinit xorg-server-utils" my console returns the following errors:
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/testing.db: Unrecognized archive format
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/multilib.db: Unrecognized archive format
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/core.db: Unrecognized archive format
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/extra.db: Unrecognized archive format
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/community-testing.db: Unrecognized archive format
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/community.db: Unrecognized archive format
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/testing.db: Unrecognized archive format
These errors repeat again followed by:
error: target not found: xorg-twm
I'm in Canada, so I've only set my mirror list to use "Server = http://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch"
Also, in my /etc/pacman.conf all SigLevel's are = Never.
Thanks for any replies.
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Did you run pacman -Syu before attempting to install new packages?
Also, seeing that is a first time install, are you certain that you want to enable the testing and community-testing repos?
Last edited by skunktrader (2013-03-11 02:54:27)
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Did you run pacman -Syu before attempting to install new packages?
Thanks for the quick reply
Yes, however pacman -Syu as well as pacman -Syyu return the same errors.
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pacman-db-upgrade
pacman -Syyu
try others mirrors
Last edited by Jristz (2013-03-11 03:00:56)
Well, I suppose that this is somekind of signature, no?
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pacman-db-upgrade
pacman -Syyutry others mirrors
Same result on pacman -Syyu
8 other mirrors either
A) Returned the same error
B) Failed to download and resulted in an error
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Is /var on a separate partition and if so, is it mounted?
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and delete the archives .db and rerun the pacman -Syyu
but...you use pacman 4.0.3 right?
Well, I suppose that this is somekind of signature, no?
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/var is on the same partition (so yes, it is mounted).
pacman --version returned Pacman v4.0.3 - libalpm v7.0.3
Deleted everything in /var/lib/pacman/sync, re-ran the commands....still getting this error
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Same here.
"The old UNIX hackers never die, they only turn to zombie processes"
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