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menator

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Registered: 2004-01-12

Posts: 8

error while updating packages

I got this when I installed gnome. Anyone had this before?

[root@menator ragencage35]# pacman -S gnome-desktop

Targets: orbit2-2.8.3-1 libbonobo-2.4.3-1 gconf-2.4.0.1-1 gnome-vfs-2.4.2-1
         libgnome-2.4.0-1 startup-notification-0.5-3 gnome-desktop-2.4.1.1-1

Do you want to install/upgrade these packages? [Y/n] y

:: Retrieving packages from unofficial...
 orbit2-2.8.3-1.pkg.tar.g [#################################] 100% |    543K
 libbonobo-2.4.3-1.pkg.ta [#################################] 100% |   1027K
 gconf-2.4.0.1-1.pkg.tar. [#################################] 100% |    990K
 gnome-vfs-2.4.2-1.pkg.ta [#################################] 100% |    727K
 libgnome-2.4.0-1.pkg.tar [#################################] 100% |    586K
 gnome-desktop-2.4.1.1-1. [#################################] 100% |    640K

:: Retrieving packages from current...
 startup-notification-0.5 [#################################] 100% |     30K

loading package data... orbit2: syntax error in description file line 10
libbonobo: syntax error in description file line 10
libbonobo: syntax error in description file line 11
gconf: syntax error in description file line 10
gnome-vfs: syntax error in description file line 10
libgnome: syntax error in description file line 10
gnome-desktop: syntax error in description file line 10
done.
checking for conflicts... done.
installing orbit2... done.
installing libbonobo... done.
installing gconf... done.
installing gnome-vfs... done.
installing libgnome... done.
installing startup-notification... done.
installing gnome-desktop... done.
[root@menator ragencage35]#

gnome installed fine.

Xentac

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From: Victoria, BC

Registered: 2003-01-17

Posts: 1,797

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Re: error while updating packages

You have an old version of pacman.  Upgrade it.

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