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What is the PKGBUILD for XFree86 4.3.0? Radeon will not work with the new version yet. Anyone have a PKGBUILD or a pkg.tar.gz?
If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 1 Corinthians 13:2
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grrr... I still had my PKGBUILD from abs.. Won't compile, there's errors. Anyone have a binary xfree 4.3.0 package lying around?
If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 1 Corinthians 13:2
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Maybe from one of the arch linux cds?
If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 1 Corinthians 13:2
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Okay, the xfree4.3 is still on the archlinux.org ftp server... Maybe it should stay there. Well, I'm gonna burn it to a disk for safekeeping, just in case.
Also: How can I make pacman ignore a package during a pacman -Syu, because I don't want xfree86 to be upgraded everytime I system update....
If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 1 Corinthians 13:2
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How can I make pacman ignore a package during a pacman -Syu, because I don't want xfree86 to be upgraded everytime I system update....
That would be a:
IgnorePkg = xfree86
In your pacman.conf, I think...
If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience.
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grrr... I still had my PKGBUILD from abs.. Won't compile, there's errors. Anyone have a binary xfree 4.3.0 package lying around?
You can't compile X with fakeroot, you gotsta be root.
I have discovered that all of mans unhappiness derives from only one source, not being able to sit quietly in a room
- Blaise Pascal
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Yeah, I was
If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 1 Corinthians 13:2
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Hello, I stupidly upgraded to xfree86 4.4 with my Radeon 9600 before reading this thread, so now I am stuck.
I understand now how you can prevent pacman from upgrading xfree86, but what if you already did it?
Is it possible to downgrade the package? Or do I have to get pacman to do a recursive remove of xfree86, and then do "pacman -A xfree86-4.3", and then reinstall everything else?
Is there a better way of doing this?
(Luckily, I haven't been housecleaning my cache... )
Thanks in advance!
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You want to know what I did? Here's a mini HOWTO.
Getting XFree 4.3.0
1) First, download the XFree86 4.3.0 package from
ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/current/xfree86 … pkg.tar.gz.
2) Remove the XFree86 4.4.0 package with:
pacman -Rd xfree86
3) Install XFree86 4.3.0 using this command:
pacman -A /path/to/downloades/files/xfree86-4.3.0-7.pkg.tar.gz
4) To prevent pacman upgrades from upgrading XFree, add this to the [Options] section of your /etc/pacman.conf
IgnorePkg = xfree86
There you go!! You're good to go until ATI releases new 4.4.0 drivers, then you can remove the addition to your pacman.conf, pacman -Syu, and live happily ever after
If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 1 Corinthians 13:2
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Wow, that was fast!
It worked! Although pacman did complain that it couldn't find ttf-bitstream-vera in the db, but I luckily had that in my pacman cache as well.
Cheers!
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pacman -U will let you 'upgrade' to a lower version.
I have discovered that all of mans unhappiness derives from only one source, not being able to sit quietly in a room
- Blaise Pascal
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pacman -U <full path to package.pkg.tar.gz>
Hey, it does work! Learn a new thing everyday. Thanks, Xentac.
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