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keep2250

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Registered: 2024-10-04

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Unable to install "beep" package.

I tried installing beep yesterday but it did not fully install and is stuck. Everytime I run pacman it tries to install it but fails. How can I complete the installation?

> sudo pacman -Syu --needed onionshare
Synchronizing package databases...
 core is up to date
 extra is up to date
 multilib is up to date
Starting full system upgrade...
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...

Package (8)                  New Version  Net Change  Download Size

extra/python-bidict          0.23.1-3       0.23 MiB       0.05 MiB
extra/python-engineio        4.9.1-1        0.74 MiB       0.12 MiB
extra/python-eventlet        0.35.2-1      16.41 MiB       1.64 MiB
extra/python-flask-compress  1.14-2         0.04 MiB       0.01 MiB
extra/python-flask-socketio  5.3.6-2        0.23 MiB       0.05 MiB
extra/python-socketio        5.8.0-3        0.73 MiB       0.10 MiB
extra/python-unidecode       1.3.8-2        1.39 MiB       0.22 MiB
extra/onionshare             2.6.2-2        4.75 MiB       1.49 MiB

Total Download Size:    3.68 MiB
Total Installed Size:  24.52 MiB

Proceed with installation? [Y/n] y
Retrieving packages...
 python-unidecode-1.3.8-2-any                227.6 KiB   973 KiB/s 00:00 [########################################] 100%
 python-bidict-0.23.1-3-any                   46.8 KiB   200 KiB/s 00:00 [########################################] 100%
 python-engineio-4.9.1-1-any                 127.6 KiB   523 KiB/s 00:00 [########################################] 100%
 python-eventlet-0.35.2-1-any               1677.9 KiB  4.59 MiB/s 00:00 [########################################] 100%
 python-socketio-5.8.0-3-any                 101.0 KiB   273 KiB/s 00:00 [########################################] 100%
 python-flask-socketio-5.3.6-2-any            46.2 KiB   112 KiB/s 00:00 [########################################] 100%
 python-flask-compress-1.14-2-any             14.7 KiB  31.8 KiB/s 00:00 [########################################] 100%
 onionshare-2.6.2-2-any                     1525.6 KiB  3.12 MiB/s 00:00 [########################################] 100%
 Total (8/8)                                   3.7 MiB  5.71 MiB/s 00:01 [########################################] 100%
(8/8) checking keys in keyring                                           [########################################] 100%
(8/8) checking package integrity                                         [########################################] 100%
(8/8) loading package files                                              [########################################] 100%
(8/8) checking for file conflicts                                        [########################################] 100%
(8/8) checking available disk space                                      [########################################] 100%
Running pre-transaction hooks...
(1/1) Pac-Man beep
beep: Error: Running as root under sudo, which is not supported for security reasons.
beep: Error: Set up permissions for the pcspkr evdev device file and run as non-root user instead.
error: command failed to execute correctly
Processing package changes...
(1/8) installing python-flask-compress
...
(8/8) installing onionshare                                              [########################################] 100%
Optional dependencies for onionshare
    python-nautilus: enable Nautilus right-click extension [installed]
Running post-transaction hooks...
(1/4) Arming ConditionNeedsUpdate...
(2/4) Updating icon theme caches...
(3/4) Pac-Man beep
beep: Error: Running as root under sudo, which is not supported for security reasons.
beep: Error: Set up permissions for the pcspkr evdev device file and run as non-root user instead.
error: command failed to execute correctly
(4/4) Updating the desktop file MIME type cache...

mpan

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Registered: 2012-08-01

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Re: Unable to install "beep" package.

The output you provided is from `pacman -Syu`, not from an attempt to install the beep package. Since you didn’t provide the output of an attempt to install beep, can’t really provide any help.

In the output you did provide, there are errors from invalid beep invocations by some “Pac-Man beep” hook. Those errors don’t affect pacman, but prove you already have beep installed. That’s confusing, given you want to install it.

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seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

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Re: Unable to install "beep" package.

This isn't about installing beep but some pacman hook(s) use "sudo beep".
The cause is most likely https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/pacman-beep-hook

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