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keepitsimpleengineer

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From: San Joaquin Valley, CA

Registered: 2012-06-25

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[SOLVED]Suddeny failure to download upgraded files using wget

To wit:

[--ljohnson{12:57:18}~]$ sudo pacman -Syy
:: Synchronizing package databases...
core.db                             100%[=================================================================>] 128.54K  --.-KB/s    in 0.1s    
extra.db                            100%[=================================================================>]   8.31M  7.71MB/s    in 1.1s    
community.db                        100%[=================================================================>]      45  --.-KB/s    in 0s      
multilib.db                         100%[=================================================================>] 139.75K  --.-KB/s    in 0.09s   
[--ljohnson{13:02:35}~]$ sudo pacman -Syyu
:: Synchronizing package databases...
core.db                             100%[=================================================================>] 128.54K  --.-KB/s    in 0.07s   
extra.db                            100%[=================================================================>]   8.31M  7.14MB/s    in 1.2s    
community.db                        100%[=================================================================>]      45  --.-KB/s    in 0s      
multilib.db                         100%[=================================================================>] 139.75K  --.-KB/s    in 0.1s    
:: Starting full system upgrade...
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...

Package (24)                           Old Version         New Version         Net Change  Download Size

extra/cmake                            3.28.4-1            3.29.0-1              1.43 MiB               
extra/go-md2man                        2.0.3-1             2.0.4-1               0.08 MiB       0.76 MiB
extra/gst-editing-services             1.24.0-3            1.24.1-1              0.00 MiB       0.51 MiB
extra/gst-libav                        1.24.0-3            1.24.1-1              0.00 MiB       0.10 MiB
extra/gst-plugin-gtk                   1.24.0-3            1.24.1-1              0.00 MiB       0.04 MiB
extra/gst-plugins-bad                  1.24.0-3            1.24.1-1              0.00 MiB       1.10 MiB
extra/gst-plugins-bad-libs             1.24.0-3            1.24.1-1              0.01 MiB       2.70 MiB
extra/gst-plugins-base                 1.24.0-3            1.24.1-1              0.00 MiB       0.31 MiB
extra/gst-plugins-base-libs            1.24.0-3            1.24.1-1              0.00 MiB       2.23 MiB
extra/gst-plugins-good                 1.24.0-3            1.24.1-1              0.00 MiB       2.21 MiB
extra/gst-plugins-ugly                 1.24.0-3            1.24.1-1              0.00 MiB       0.18 MiB
extra/gst-python                       1.24.0-3            1.24.1-1              0.00 MiB       0.04 MiB
extra/gstreamer                        1.24.0-3            1.24.1-1             -0.99 MiB       2.00 MiB
multilib/lib32-gst-plugins-base-libs   1.24.0-2            1.24.1-1              0.00 MiB       1.60 MiB
multilib/lib32-gstreamer               1.24.0-2            1.24.1-1              0.00 MiB       1.23 MiB
extra/libopenshot                      0.3.2-8             0.3.2-9               0.00 MiB       1.11 MiB
extra/libwpe                           1.14.2-1            1.16.0-1              0.00 MiB       0.05 MiB
extra/python-google-api-core           2.17.1-1            2.18.0-1              0.01 MiB       0.16 MiB
extra/python-google-api-python-client  2.122.0-1           2.123.0-1             0.26 MiB       4.45 MiB
extra/python-time-machine              2.14.0-1            2.14.1-1              0.00 MiB       0.03 MiB
extra/qt5-base                         5.15.13+kde+r138-1  5.15.13+kde+r142-1   -0.01 MiB      12.95 MiB
extra/redland                          1:1.0.17-8          1:1.0.17-9            0.00 MiB       0.19 MiB
extra/texlive-basic                    2024.0-2            2024.0-3              0.00 MiB       6.63 MiB
extra/xf86-video-nouveau               1.0.17-2            1.0.17-3             -0.01 MiB       0.09 MiB

Total Download Size:    40.66 MiB
Total Installed Size:  313.68 MiB
Net Upgrade Size:        0.78 MiB

:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] 
:: Retrieving packages...
 Total ( 0/24)                                             40.7 MiB  18.6 MiB/s 00:02 [#################################################] 100%
warning: failed to retrieve some files
error: failed to commit transaction (error invoking external downloader)
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

From /etc/pacman.conf

#XferCommand = /usr/bin/curl -C - -f %u > %o
#XferCommand = /usr/bin/wget --passive-ftp -c -O %o %u
XferCommand = /usr/bin/wget --passive-ftp --show-progress -c -q -N %u

curl produces similar results, cannot install another downloader due to fail???

Last edited by keepitsimpleengineer (2024-03-24 18:45:41)

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Re: [SOLVED]Suddeny failure to download upgraded files using wget

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 1#p2158171 ?

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keepitsimpleengineer

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From: San Joaquin Valley, CA

Registered: 2012-06-25

Posts: 382

Re: [SOLVED]Suddeny failure to download upgraded files using wget

Apparently pacman.conf was far out of date. Problem solved,

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Al Einstein: "Man soll die Dinge so einfach machen wie möglich ~ aber nicht einfacher." (Things should be as simple as possible ~ but not too simple.) ~ Al (Einstein) war ein Cousin von Albert, "Al" ist die Abkürzung für Aloysius