[SOLVED] vbam-gtk depends on sfml, but pacman can't find it, 404 error

starling000 · 2015-05-16 00:43:56

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)

jasonwryan · 2015-05-16 01:08:24

404 indicates that you are trying to sync to a package no longer on the mirror: use -Syyu on an up-to-date mirror.

starling000 · 2015-05-16 02:01:34

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.

auscompgeek · 2015-05-17 06:57:14

FWIW, apt doesn't auto-update either. OP is probably describing some sort of update manager or frontend to apt.

jasonwryan · 2015-05-17 07:15:29

auscompgeek wrote:

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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#1 2015-05-16 00:43:56

[SOLVED] vbam-gtk depends on sfml, but pacman can't find it, 404 error

#2 2015-05-16 01:08:24

Re: [SOLVED] vbam-gtk depends on sfml, but pacman can't find it, 404 error

#3 2015-05-16 02:01:34

Re: [SOLVED] vbam-gtk depends on sfml, but pacman can't find it, 404 error

#4 2015-05-17 06:57:14

Re: [SOLVED] vbam-gtk depends on sfml, but pacman can't find it, 404 error

#5 2015-05-17 07:15:29

Re: [SOLVED] vbam-gtk depends on sfml, but pacman can't find it, 404 error

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