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WernerL

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Registered: 2007-07-03

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xorg failed to install

hello,

The installation of archlinux went fine... and oh my god ! The bootup time... Nice ! But now I need a DE. I installed a base system. But when I try to install xorg he installes a lot of packages but a few he don't.

Retrieving packages from current...
error: failed retrieving file 'freetype2-2 blabla.tar.gz' from ftp.surfnet.nl

And this for 7 files. And he don't wan't to try another mirror... How can I change the mirror and/or install xorg?
I can't work in an textbased OS...

Hope someone can help me out. First time I use arch.

Cerebral

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From: Waterloo, ON, CA

Registered: 2005-04-08

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Re: xorg failed to install

Mirrors are defined in /etc/pacman.conf and /etc/pacman.d/REPONAME  (ie /etc/pacman.d/current)

If you're using pacman 3, you can use the included rankmirrors script to try to properly sort those mirrors out; otherwise just move the one you want to the top of the list in each individual file.

WernerL

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Registered: 2007-07-03

Posts: 161

Re: xorg failed to install

I don't know wich version of pacman I have. Downloaded arch yesterday. So I have the latest version of arch. :-)
But wich mirror I try, I stays saying he can't find the files. Even ftp.archlinux.org doesn't work... and yes I have internet. I can ping www.google.nl :-) And he downloaded a few packages.. but not 7 of them.

what mirrors do work when you're from Europe?

//edit
Don't know what I did... but it works

Last edited by WernerL (2007-07-03 14:54:30)

Cerebral

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Re: xorg failed to install

Ohhh, yeah - make sure you run

pacman -Sy

to get the newest list of packages from the mirrors - you might have been running off an old list, and hence the old package couldn't be found by a mirror that removes outdated packages.

Right after a fresh install, we recommend you run pacman -Syu before installing anything else to ensure everything's properly uptodate.

WernerL

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Registered: 2007-07-03

Posts: 161

Re: xorg failed to install

Ok thanks. Yes that was what I did.
I runned pacman -Sy and than it worked.

Now I'm running pacman -Syu. It's a lot lol
I already installed xfce4.4 and firefox.

Ow and one more question, the fonts look terrible in xfce4.4 ... Do you know why? I installed nvidiadrivers. I got the nvidia splash when starting xfce. I started it with startxfce4

Cerebral

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From: Waterloo, ON, CA

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Re: xorg failed to install

For this sort of thing, I'd first suggest searching the forums and wiki to see if anyone else has had this problem before - no use duplicating work or responses.

Anyway, I searched the wiki for you, and came up with these two possible pages
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fonts_FAQ
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/I_j … e_all_ugly

They might help.