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I installed Voodoo Beta2 from CD.
I am now trying to install xorg from the CD.
From the Xorg7 wiki page, step 1 is: Make sure pacman is configured and refreshed.
Neither the pacman wiki, nor the pacman man page explain how to add a CD repository.
The 0.7.2 installation guide suggests adding the following to /etc/pacman.conf:
[cd]
Server = file:///mnt/cd/arch/pkg
I changed the code to reflect my mount point, which is /mnt/cdrom:
[cd]
Server = file:///mnt/cdrom/arch/pkg
I mounted the cdrom with:
mount /mnt/cdrom
I browsed the pkg directory on the cdrom with:
ls /mnt/cdrom/arch/pkg/
Display all 564 possibilities? (y or n)
I tried to sync and refresh the package list with:
pacman -Sy
I encountered this problem:
error: could not open sync database: cd
have you used --refresh yet?
I issued this command:
pacman -S xorg
and was faced with the same result.
Where am I going wrong?
Thank you.
wickyd
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there is no cd.db.tar.gz in this directory, change [cd] to [current] and it will work
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I commented out the [cd] section and added Server = file:///mnt/cdrom/arch/pkg to [current].
Now the error is:
Failed to synchronize extra
error: could not open sync database: extra
have you used -- refresh yet?
I added Server = file:///mnt/cdrom/arch/pkg to [extra], but that did not work.
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Thank you for the help.
All I needed to do was comment out [extra] completely in /etc/pacman.conf and I also commented out [current] Include = /etc/pacman.d/current.
Xorg is busy installing.
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