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Tupolev130709

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Registered: 2025-12-24

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pacman does not work

i have installed a hyprland .config and everything now works but since i changed the server for pacman i can no longer install anything, can someone help me with this problem?
the error i am getting is the following: error: config file /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist could not be read: No such file or directory

StarWolf3000

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Registered: 2025-06-23

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Re: pacman does not work

Obviously the first thing you should do before asking is to check if the file it complains about does no longer exist.
Also unless you do purge your pacman cache, just reinstall the local mirror list package from the cache.

And even if you purged, you could still create a fresh list from the website: https://archlinux.org/mirrorlist/

See https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Pacman … nd_mirrors and https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Mirrors

Last edited by StarWolf3000 (2025-12-24 09:32:10)

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Tupolev130709

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Re: pacman does not work

ok so i just checked for the file and its gone, i dont understand what to do now though

seth

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Re: pacman does not work

Get a new one, StarWolf3000 handed you some links itr, reflector still does work and https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=304532 has some nerds nerding out nerd shit about nerdy ways to generate filtered mirror lists

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Tupolev130709

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Registered: 2025-12-24

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Re: pacman does not work

thank you for your help but now i have another issue, i dont have any servers configured for the extra repositories. how do i fix this?

StarWolf3000

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Re: pacman does not work

You find all required information in the posts above and the Wiki. The Wiki exists for a reason.

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Re: pacman does not work

Usually you don't configure individual servers for official repos, since all mirror servers as listed in pacman's mirrorlist provide all official repos. You probably just need to enable the respective repo, the procedure of which is described in the wiki.

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Tupolev130709

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Registered: 2025-12-24

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Re: pacman does not work

Everything works just fine now, Thank you for the help!

StarWolf3000

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Re: pacman does not work

Then please edit your initial post and prefix the title with [Solved]

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