[Solved] Unable to install any packages

darthendorman · 2016-11-04 19:56:11

Hey everyone.

I just tried my hand at installing Archlinx for the first time and am following the official archlinux beginner's wiki guide. I can partition my drives and mount them perfectly fine. However, whenever I run pacstrap -i /mnt base base-devel, I run into errors similar to this:

error: GPGME error: No data
error: GPGME error: No data
error: GPGME error: No data
error: GPGME error: No data
:: Synchronizing package databases...
 core                                                                                                                 848.0   B   0.00B/s 00:00 [#######################################################################################] 100%
 core.sig                                                                                                             848.0   B  0.00B/s 00:00 [#######################################################################################] 100%
error: GPGME error: No data
error: failed to update core (invalid or corrupted database (PGP signature))

Note: I currently have do not have the base system installed so I have no access to copy-paste commands. Is there any command I can use to paste the output / log of commands without any packages?

I was able to track down the problem to the connection I currently am using; I used my phone as a hotspot (I have limited data so I prefer not to have to use the phone as a hotspot for the entire installation) and was able to run the pacstrap command without problems. When I switched back to the wifi provided by my college, however, I still ran into the above issues. I can ping websites perfectly fine (pinged google.com, archlinux.com, yahoo.com without problems).

Does anyone know what could help fix this problem so I can install archlinux without need of a phone hotspot?

Last edited by darthendorman (2016-11-04 23:37:35)

Mr.Elendig · 2016-11-04 20:06:11

For pastebinning: http://ptpb.pw/

Looks like a possible network issue, try switching mirror. Also try all of http, https and ftp.

Also does this network have some capture portal? Try pointing a browser (the install image comes with one) at google or whatever.

Last edited by Mr.Elendig (2016-11-04 20:07:57)

darthendorman · 2016-11-04 20:25:45

How would I go about pointing a browser at google to check if the network has a capture portal?

Thanks for the quick reply

Mr.Elendig · 2016-11-04 20:26:29

`links https://google.com`

darthendorman · 2016-11-04 20:30:51

I get this output

 links will not execute and completion _links exists

WorMzy · 2016-11-04 20:37:58

What liveCD are you using? Where did you get it? Also there isn't a beginners' guide on the wiki any more, do you mean the installation guide?

darthendorman · 2016-11-04 20:42:06

Yes I did mean the installation guide. I'm using a flash drive formatted by Rufus for GPT partition scheme for UEFI. I got the image from https://www.archlinux.org/download/ (Torrent for 2016.11.01)

WorMzy · 2016-11-04 21:33:13

Ah, it's elinks is included in the install media, not links, that's why it's complaining that it can't execute it. Try 'elinks http://google.com' instead.

darthendorman · 2016-11-04 21:39:49

Also, as a brief sidenote, ptpb doesn't seem to be working for me.

When I input something like

 ping -c 3 google.com | curl -F c=@- http://ptpb.pw

nothing is outputted whatsoever.

Last edited by darthendorman (2016-11-04 21:44:58)

2ManyDogs · 2016-11-04 22:10:49

darthendorman wrote:

Also, as a brief sidenote, ptpb doesn't seem to be working for me.
When I input something like
 ping -c 3 google.com | curl -F c=@- http://ptpb.pw 
nothing is outputted whatsoever.

Does https work?

ping -c 3 google.com | curl -F c=@- https://ptpb.pw

darthendorman · 2016-11-04 23:31:26

2ManyDogs wrote:

Does https work?
ping -c 3 google.com | curl -F c=@- https://ptpb.pw

That was it. I feel so dumb now.

darthendorman · 2016-11-04 23:35:06

Also update: I managed to fix the issue by switching to the other wifi network available. It seems that the one I was originally on was the guest account rather than the actual resident account so some features were disabled.

Thanks for all the help everyone

2ManyDogs · 2016-11-05 00:05:40

darthendorman wrote:

2ManyDogs wrote:
Does https work?
ping -c 3 google.com | curl -F c=@- https://ptpb.pw
That was it. I feel so dumb now.

The example for ptpb on the ptpb web page uses http: so it's normal to think that would work. In fact, both http and https work for me, but I have seen some posts from people where http doesn't work for them, and the Arch wiki example uses https. Maybe something to do with your ISP, or something else. Anyway, glad you got it working. I usually use sprunge.

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