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tristian

Member

Registered: 2011-07-08

Posts: 13

Problems with pacman

Hi Folks

I'm currently having problems with pacman. My system is currently up to date, testing repositories are not enabled.

Pacman works fine when installing from an repo. The problem is when I try to install an AUR package I get:

pacman -U https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ai/airstrike/airstrike.tar.gz
 airstrike.tar.gz                       0.9K 1235.8K/s 00:00:00 [###################################] 100%
error: missing package metadata in /var/cache/pacman/pkg/airstrike.tar.gz
error: '/var/cache/pacman/pkg/airstrike.tar.gz': invalid or corrupted package

This happens no matter what the package is.

I'm going to try and remove:
openssl, libarchive, libfetch and pacman

and reinstall them using the script thats located around this forum somewhere and see if that works.

karol

Archivist

Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: Problems with pacman

This is a tAURball, not an Arch package thus it is invalid. Read https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR on how to use AUR.

Last edited by karol (2011-10-08 23:14:39)

erkexzcx

Banned

From: Kaunas

Registered: 2014-09-28

Posts: 77

Re: Problems with pacman

Hi Folks

I'm currently having problems with pacman. My system is currently up to date, testing repositories are not enabled.

Pacman works fine when installing from an repo. The problem is when I try to install an AUR package I get:

pacman -U https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ai/airstrike/airstrike.tar.gz
 airstrike.tar.gz                       0.9K 1235.8K/s 00:00:00 [###################################] 100%
error: missing package metadata in /var/cache/pacman/pkg/airstrike.tar.gz
error: '/var/cache/pacman/pkg/airstrike.tar.gz': invalid or corrupted package

This happens no matter what the package is.

I'm going to try and remove:
openssl, libarchive, libfetch and pacman

and reinstall them using the script thats located around this forum somewhere and see if that works.

Read what it says here and I promise you will be very familiar after. Its incredibly easy!

http://i59.tinypic.com/axl8c8.png

mod edit: converted img to url, please see image guidelines - Trilby --

Last edited by Trilby (2014-09-28 19:23:37)

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nomorewindows

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Registered: 2010-04-03

Posts: 3,469

Re: Problems with pacman

That's just the package you download to make the package yourself.

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Trilby

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Registered: 2011-11-29

Posts: 30,417

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Re: Problems with pacman

Moving to NC.

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