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avisek

Member

Registered: 2014-11-01

Posts: 6

Error installing archlinux from ubuntu 14.04

On running

pacman -Syyu

Getting the error :

error: could not determine cachedir mount point /var/cache/pacman/pkg 

error: failed to commit transaction (not enough free disk space)

Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

I am following Install from existing Linux

Here is what Ive done :

sudo su

cd /tmp

tar zxf /home/userme/Downloads/archlinux-bootstrap-2015.10.01-x86_64.tar.gz

[Uncommented some servers in /tmp/root.x86_64/etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist]

cd /tmp/root.x86_64/

cp /etc/resolv.conf etc

mount -t proc /proc proc

mount --rbind /sys sys

mount --rbind /dev dev

mount --rbind /run run

chroot /tmp/root.x86_64 /bin/bash 

pacman-key --init

pacman-key --populate archlinux

Next when I am trying to refresh the package list :

pacman -Syyu
:: Synchronizing package databases...
 core                     121.7 KiB   100K/s 00:01 [######################] 100%
 extra                   1817.5 KiB  87.6K/s 00:21 [######################] 100%
 community                  2.8 MiB   107K/s 00:27 [######################] 100%
:: Starting full system upgrade...
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...

Packages (1) pacman-mirrorlist-20151002-1

Total Download Size:   0.00 MiB
Total Installed Size:  0.03 MiB
Net Upgrade Size:      0.00 MiB

:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] y
error: could not determine cachedir mount point /var/cache/pacman/pkg
error: failed to commit transaction (not enough free disk space)
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

What can I do?

Scimmia

Fellow

Registered: 2012-09-01

Posts: 12,416

Re: Error installing archlinux from ubuntu 14.04

I wouldn't even bother updating inside the chroot. Just go ahead with the install.