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christianpurefoy

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Registered: 2005-10-16

Posts: 136

two quick questions (I hope!)

I tried pacman -S openoffice-base and it's telling me file corrupted.

ideally I would like to install openoffice 2. However, I tried pacman -S openoffice2'
... and it just came up with #...

also, I downloaded rox but I can't get it to exec. I'm using enlightenment and not too sure how to add it to the app. menu which I imagine would be the easiest option (all the help guides on this talk about files which don't seem to exist in arch so I'm getting a bit lost...)

thanks-o!

Moo-Crumpus

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From: Hessen / Germany

Registered: 2003-12-01

Posts: 1,488

Re: two quick questions (I hope!)

Afaik, the openoffice packages are broken or some parts have been removed, I don't really know. As oo2 rc is in testing, you could fetch it there. Tpowa announced he would finish replacing 1.x with 2 soon after it is officially released, what will happen the next days.

Sorry, I can't help you with enlightenment.

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christianpurefoy

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Registered: 2005-10-16

Posts: 136

Re: two quick questions (I hope!)

okay i got rox running- but only in root (i presume this is okay?)

so it's just the pacman -S command for installing open office 2 please!

elasticdog

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From: Washington, USA

Registered: 2005-05-02

Posts: 995

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Re: two quick questions (I hope!)

As for Open Office 2, it's still in the testing repo until it moves from the Release Candidate to a final version.  If you want to use it before then, you'll have to uncomment the testing repo in <code>/etc/pacman.conf</code> and then do something like:

# pacman -Sy testing/openoffice-base

Once that's installed, you can go back and comment out the testing repo in <code>/etc/pacman.conf</code> once again.

The rox issue, I'm not so sure about...I have it running just fine through Xfce and just have to use the command <code>rox</code> to launch it; my paths have apparently been taken care of properly...

Moo-Crumpus

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From: Hessen / Germany

Registered: 2003-12-01

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Re: two quick questions (I hope!)

pacman -S testing/packagename

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php? … n++testing

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lpcustom

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Registered: 2005-12-24

Posts: 10

Re: two quick questions (I hope!)

I'm pretty much a new Arch user but I have pretty much gotten use to pacman. I have the same prob with the openoffice-base from the extras repo. I get this

:: Retrieving packages from extra...
 openoffice-base-2.0.1-1  [################] 100%  107665K   312.9K/s  00:01:28

checking package integrity...
error: archive openoffice-base-2.0.1-1.pkg.tar.gz is corrupted

Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong because it seems to be working for everyone else? I've been trying it for the last two days. I thought it was actually a corrupt package but I must have been wrong.

lpcustom

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Registered: 2005-12-24

Posts: 10

Re: two quick questions (I hope!)

I also tried:

 pacman -S -c -c 

to clean the packages off my machine so I could re-download them.

T-Dawg

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From: Charlotte, NC

Registered: 2005-01-29

Posts: 2,736

Re: two quick questions (I hope!)

try switching mirrors in /etc/pacman.d/* by moving one up on the list.

lpcustom

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Registered: 2005-12-24

Posts: 10

Re: two quick questions (I hope!)

thanks man....that's something i've never messed with....i'll give it a try....again thanks

lpcustom

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Registered: 2005-12-24

Posts: 10

Re: two quick questions (I hope!)

I didn't realize i could choose between all those mirrors actually (in extra)

lpcustom

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Registered: 2005-12-24

Posts: 10

Re: two quick questions (I hope!)

after commenting out all but one repo...i still have the same prob....i've tried this with three different repos

colnago

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From: Victoria, BC

Registered: 2004-03-25

Posts: 438

Re: two quick questions (I hope!)

Make sure you remove the file from /var/cache/packman/pkg/ before you try again.  If pacman sees it there, it won't download it again from the server, keeping the corrupt one for the install.

lpcustom

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Registered: 2005-12-24

Posts: 10

Re: two quick questions (I hope!)

yeah i rm'd it and I also tried pacman -S -c -c
it must be something in the gzip crc check
I'm the only one having this prob. It's the only file i have this prob with too. weird

lpcustom

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Registered: 2005-12-24

Posts: 10

Re: two quick questions (I hope!)

Well I did get this worked out. I just now remembered to come back to post what I did to resolve this issue. I thought my prob was with FTP repos. Gzip's site said that 90% of crc errors were from ftp transfers in ascii. This should be binary. I fixed this by using only an http repo in the "extra" file. I still don't know how to fix the actual prob though. Why does pacman on my machine have a prob with using binary on FTP repos? Or how do I change it to do so?

Snowman

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From: Montreal, Canada

Registered: 2004-08-20

Posts: 5,212

Re: two quick questions (I hope!)

You could try to download the packages with wget  instead of pacman's internal downloader.  To do so, uncomment the XferCommand line in your pacman.conf. And install wget if it's not  on your system.

Bysshe

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Registered: 2004-12-10

Posts: 271

Re: two quick questions (I hope!)

I think what he's noticed about rox is that you can run it as a user, but rox actually has administrator privileges over files.  Does seem a little weird.