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tlaloc

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Registered: 2006-05-12

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[solved] pacman3 doesn't find xfce

[tlaloc@archlinux ~]$ pacman -Qi terminal
Fehler: Paket "terminal" nicht gefunden

What? "terminal" not found? I typed that command in terminal, so it is definitively installed. Have the same problem with other xfce-packages. Is that related to the shift from /opt to /usr, and how do you fix it?

Last edited by tlaloc (2007-04-17 13:23:26)

baze

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Registered: 2005-10-30

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Re: [solved] pacman3 doesn't find xfce

works without a problem here and i also use pacman from testing and everything is up to date here (xfce rests in /usr)

is it listed when you do pacman -Qg xfce4?

Last edited by baze (2007-04-14 15:39:25)

tlaloc

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Re: [solved] pacman3 doesn't find xfce

Unfortunatedly not - "group not found"

Mr Green

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Re: [solved] pacman3 doesn't find xfce

looks like a database problem... you just running stock pacman? did you install xfce4 using pacman? [sounds daft but!!!]

did I beat baze to post... lol

Last edited by Mr Green (2007-04-14 17:52:04)

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baze

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Re: [solved] pacman3 doesn't find xfce

does pacman -Q find anything at all? maybe your database is broken, dunno.
or does it help if you just reinstall xfce4?

tlaloc

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Re: [solved] pacman3 doesn't find xfce

I used to switch between KDE and XFCE. A "pacman -Qi kdelibs" (for example) gives me a fine, proper output. So if there is anything broken in my db, it is restricted to XFCE.
Pacman is - as indicated above - version 3 from [testing]. XFCE was installed with some stock 2.9.x-version. I will not try to reinstall XFCE, because it works fine (guess what I am using in writing this post). It is just that pacman doesn't seem to understand ....

Captain Spaulding

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Re: [solved] pacman3 doesn't find xfce

I have a similiar problem with Eclipse, http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=31935 and I'm using pacman 3.0.1/libalpm 1.0.0. Maybe this is a pacman3 issue?

tlaloc

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From: Lower Saxony

Registered: 2006-05-12

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Re: [solved] pacman3 doesn't find xfce

Maybe this is a pacman3 issue?

I dunno  ... That is why I asked in the first place. BTW: My still functioning XFCE-packages are all SVN-versions from the old shadowhand-repo. Build/installed Dec. 2006. They are listed in /var/lib/pacman/local (where they are supposed to be, right) -but not recongized/updated ...

baze

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Re: [solved] pacman3 doesn't find xfce

uhm.. shadowhand's packages were called *-svn. that's probably why you have to look for the group xfce4-svn and terminal-svn. -Qi doesn't search for terminal in the name, that would require s aswell: pacman -Qsi terminal should list terminal-svn and pacman -Qsg xfce4 should find all things in the group xfce4-svn. for you pacman -Qi terminal-svn should work.

as i said, i use pacman 3 from testing aswell and everything works fine here. when i installed xfce4 first, i used pacman 2 too.

tlaloc

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Re: [solved] pacman3 doesn't find xfce

Yeah, too silly - it was all about package names. Mea culpa, mea maxima culpa ...