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insane

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Registered: 2006-06-04

Posts: 106

Can't download anything Nvidia related from repos

When I try "sudo pacman -Sy nvidia " I get

Password:
:: Synchronizing package databases...
:: current is up to date
connect: No route to host
error: cannot connect to ftp.rez-gif.supelec.fr
error: could not cwd to /pub/archlinux/extra/os/i686/: 550 Failed to change directory.

:: extra is up to date
:: community is up to date
:: nvidia-utils conflicts with libgl-dri. Remove libgl-dri? [Y/n]

Remove:  libgl-dri

Targets: nvidia-utils-1.0.8774-1 nvidia-1.0.8774-1

Total Package Size:   5.4 MB

Proceed with upgrade? [Y/n]

:: Retrieving packages from current...
warning: failed to get filesize for nvidia-utils-1.0.8774-1.pkg.tar.gz

failed downloading nvidia-utils-1.0.8774-1.pkg.tar.gz from ftp.archlinux.org: 550 Failed to open file.

warning: failed to get filesize for nvidia-1.0.8774-1.pkg.tar.gz

failed downloading nvidia-1.0.8774-1.pkg.tar.gz from ftp.archlinux.org: 550 Failed to open file.

error: anonymous login failed
Control socket read failed: Success
warning: failed to get filesize for nvidia-utils-1.0.8774-1.pkg.tar.gz

failed downloading nvidia-utils-1.0.8774-1.pkg.tar.gz from ftp-linux.cc.gatech.edu: 550 Failed to open file.

warning: failed to get filesize for nvidia-1.0.8774-1.pkg.tar.gz

failed downloading nvidia-1.0.8774-1.pkg.tar.gz from ftp-linux.cc.gatech.edu: 550 Failed to open file.

...

and this goes on and on and on ...

The same thing happens with nvidia-utils, nforce and nforce-utils.

byte

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From: Düsseldorf (DE)

Registered: 2006-05-01

Posts: 2,046

Re: Can't download anything Nvidia related from repos

The package is already at -2, you need to synchronize (-Sy).

edit: Ah, you did that. Then better use a known good mirror for all repos.

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insane

Member

Registered: 2006-06-04

Posts: 106

Re: Can't download anything Nvidia related from repos

Actualy it tries all repos available in the list. I just included the first trie only to keep the page small