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kiyoshi7

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Registered: 2016-08-01

Posts: 10

installing python2-2.7.18-2 from AUR using yay

Hi I've been trying to install a couple of packages with yay that use python 2 but my installation fails because python2 one of the packages yay tries to retrieve, but cant (url returns error 404). I also cannot install python2 via pacman. does Anyone know a workaround? or if python2-2.7.18-3 (https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/python2/) will work and how to specify this package to yay, because it always goes for python2-2.7.18-2. Do I need to build python2 for source?

loqs

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Registered: 2014-03-06

Posts: 19,016

Re: installing python2-2.7.18-2 from AUR using yay

Have you fully updated your system?  If so change your primary mirror as python2 2.7.18-3 is the latest version and should be being installed by `pacman -S python2`.

AirsoftHamster

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Registered: 2020-11-10

Posts: 74

Re: installing python2-2.7.18-2 from AUR using yay

You might want to try

sudo pacman -Syyu

then

sudo pacman -S python2

This should update the package databases and run a full system upgrade.