Where is mplayer?

tct1501 · 2006-12-16 22:35:43

Hi all,

My question is small and probably dumb, but I dont know. I removed mplayer this afternoon and this evening I tried installing it again with pacman -S mplayer. But pacman says "mplayer: not found in sync db"

I tried pacman -Syu, adding new servers to the pacman.conf file, verifying the servers whether they actually had mplayer hosted, but nothing. I dont get it. pacman -S foo results in asking me to download foo, but not with mplayer.

Anyone?

skottish · 2006-12-17 00:02:38

I have no idea why that's happening to you. For the time being you can do this from the command line:

wget ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/extra/os/i686/m … pkg.tar.gz

and install with pacman --upgrade mplayer

tct1501 · 2006-12-17 12:47:21

Wgetting the package and pacman -U indeed did the track. Though it shouldnt be this way. However, im glad you also cant make sense of it. In that Im no longer alone

Thanks.

If anyone can point out the failure, Ill always happy to know.

Kermit · 2006-12-17 12:58:45

Hi tct1501. I checked my pacman and I found 'mplayer' in 'Extra' repo. I think u have hashed line with 'Extra' repo in '/etc/pacman.conf'. Check it, unhash (if it's hashed) and run 'pacman -Sy ; pacman -S mplayer'.

I'm waiting for results, Kermit.

tct1501 · 2006-12-17 13:15:43

Hello there, my Polish fellow European

It seemed some servers written in the extra section of pacman.conf werent willing to cooperate. They were unhashed, I checked the servers for the files, but alas. What I did was add another few servers (which I only did for the current and community packages). And ofcourse pacman -S mplayer yielded result.

Turned out to be this simple. If I would have known, I really wouldnt have let it get to me, like yesterday. I was quite angry

Thanks for pointing me to the extra section.

byte · 2006-12-18 03:01:53

Anybody still having nethat or antesis in their /etc/pacman.d/ files should get rid of them. And read Mirrors.

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Where is mplayer?

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#5 2006-12-17 13:15:43

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