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So I'm trying to install vbam-gtk, the package for visualboyadvance, which is available to pacman directly. It's not an AUR package, nor are any of it's dependencies according to it's package page. But when I run
sudo pacman -S vbam-gtk
, it spits out this:
[kay@jadebot ~]$ sudo pacman -S vbam-gtk resolving dependencies... looking for conflicting packages... Packages (5) gtkglext-1.2.0-10 gtkglextmm-1.2.0-10 pangox-compat-0.0.2-2 sfml-2.2-4 vbam-gtk-1.8.0.1292-1 Total Download Size: 1.79 MiB Total Installed Size: 14.19 MiB :: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] :: Retrieving packages ... error: failed retrieving file 'sfml-2.2-4-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz' from archlinux.polymorf.fr : The requested URL returned error: 404 error: failed retrieving file 'sfml-2.2-4-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz' from mirror.one.com : The requested URL returned error: 404 error: failed retrieving file 'sfml-2.2-4-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz' from ftp.nluug.nl : The requested URL returned error: 404 (snip) error: failed retrieving file 'sfml-2.2-4-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz' from mirrors.nix.org.ua : The requested URL returned error: 404 error: failed retrieving file 'sfml-2.2-4-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz' from mirror.lagoon.nc : The requested URL returned error: 404 error: failed retrieving file 'sfml-2.2-4-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz' from mirror.neolabs.kz : The requested URL returned error: 404 warning: failed to retrieve some files error: failed retrieving file 'vbam-gtk-1.8.0.1292-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz' from archlinux.polymorf.fr : The requested URL returned error: 404 error: failed retrieving file 'vbam-gtk-1.8.0.1292-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz' from mirror.one.com : The requested URL returned error: 404 error: failed retrieving file 'vbam-gtk-1.8.0.1292-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz' from ftp.nluug.nl : The requested URL returned error: 404 (snip) error: failed retrieving file 'vbam-gtk-1.8.0.1292-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz' from mirrors.nix.org.ua : The requested URL returned error: 404 error: failed retrieving file 'vbam-gtk-1.8.0.1292-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz' from mirror.lagoon.nc : The requested URL returned error: 404 error: failed retrieving file 'vbam-gtk-1.8.0.1292-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz' from mirror.neolabs.kz : The requested URL returned error: 404 warning: failed to retrieve some files error: failed to commit transaction (unexpected error) Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.
Now, if I search for it via the archlinux website, I can see that sfml exists in the repository, and so does vbam-gtk, as in the link above. Now, I could just download them both from there and be done with it, but then I wouldn't learn anything, so I'm here to ask, if these packages exist in the community repository, which I have enabled and have pulled from previously, why can't pacman find these packages? I know it isn't a network issue, or at least not an obvious one. I did
sudo pacman -S xorg-xkill
to test that theory but it processed faultlessly.
Last edited by starling000 (2015-05-16 02:02:08)
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404 indicates that you are trying to sync to a package no longer on the mirror: use -Syyu on an up-to-date mirror.
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Ah, thank you! I hadn't noticed that pacman wasn't automatically updating itself each time I ran it. I'm just coming over from debian-based systems for the first time, you see. Problem solved.
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FWIW, apt doesn't auto-update either. OP is probably describing some sort of update manager or frontend to apt.
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FWIW, apt doesn't auto-update either. OP is probably describing some sort of update manager or frontend to apt.
Eh? What are you smoking?
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