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I used to have a game on my Arch box called Fish Fillets Next Generation, which I'm 99.9% sure I installed by doing pacman -S fillets-ng. This quit working last month, giving some library errors when I tried to start it. So I tried a pacman -Syu which totally destroyed my system. I hadn't fixed the mkinitcpio stuff and a few other things so the new kernel didn't like it at all.
I couldn't ever figure out how to fix that so I punted by wiping my disk and installing again using a 0.8 iso I downloaded yesterday. However, when I started re-installing packages I noticed there is no fillets-ng or anything remotely like that in the current or extras. It must have been there before since those are the only repos my pacman was set up to use.
After that long and annoying introductory info, my questions are
1. Do packages ever disappear like that or was I just hallucinating where I got it from?
2. If they do get removed, why? Is it because they are put somewhere else, or are they just deleted?
And the most important one:
3. I don't use my Arch box terribly often and update with pacman -Syu monthly or less. What is the best way to find out any potential land mines like the one that blew up my system before doing it? I read the forums regularly, but there doesn't seem to be one place to go to find out everything you need to check/change/fix before doing an update. And with how long I go between updates it is highly unlikely I'll ever remember all the changes that need to be made just from seeing them in forum posts.
Thanks,
Ralph
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1. Do packages ever disappear like that or was I just hallucinating where I got it from?
You weren't dreaming - it was real.
It seems it was downgraded last year, and is now in the AUR.
2. If they do get removed, why?
AFAIR, it was one of a number moved out of Extra to the AUR because they were no longer being maintained by any of the devs. I'm open to correction on that though, as I wasn't a dev at the time.
3. What is the best way to find out any potential land mines like the one that blew up my system before doing it?
http://www.archlinux.org/news/
Everything critical is posted there, so you should get into the habit of reading it before every update.
I'd recommend you update more often than once a month, if possible - that way, you'll have less to deal with each time.
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P.S. You're not Off-Topic, btw - Pacman & Package Upgrade Issues would be more like it.
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Thanks for the reply. I'll try to update more often and check the news page first.
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I can today play fish fillets, but I cant be abel to find him in repository.. When I red this post, I search it on AUR, but FISH FILLETS arent in AUR!! Why are you removing this package? Its good game!
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I can today play fish fillets, but I cant be abel to find him in repository.. When I red this post, I search it on AUR, but FISH FILLETS arent in AUR!! Why are you removing this package? Its good game!
It's available in AUR, it's called fillets-ng.
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