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Denacke

Member

Registered: 2008-04-09

Posts: 106

Is pacman really updating?

Hey everyone, I recently installed Archlinux on my laptop and liking it so far

As I feel like i'm just being a bit stupid, I didn't post this in the pacman topic but in the newbie corner.

I want to check out the new openoffice 2.4 (I'm currently using the 2.3 version), I tried doing a full system upgrade using
sudo pacman -Syu

This outputs that everything is up to date (and a load of packages that are actually newer than core version, I'm not sure how that happened)

I thought that perhaps the package wasn't yet in archlinux' repositories. But if I check out http://www.archlinux.org/packages/searc … e&limit=50 I see that the it's at version 2.4

Doing sudo pacman -S openoffice-base outputs

[root@nandtop nand]# pacman -S openoffice-base
warning: openoffice-base-2.3.1-2 is up to date -- reinstalling
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...

Targets: openoffice-base-2.3.1-2  

Total Download Size:    0.00 MB
Total Installed Size:   103.98 MB

Proceed with installation? [Y/n]

As you see, it seems like my system didn't synchronize it's repositories.

Here's my pacman.conf:

#
# /etc/pacman.conf
#
# See the pacman manpage for option directives

#
# GENERAL OPTIONS
#
[options]
# The following paths are commented out with their default values listed.
# If you wish to use different paths, uncomment and update the paths.
#RootDir     = /
#DBPath      = /var/lib/pacman/
#CacheDir    = /var/cache/pacman/pkg/
#LogFile     = /var/log/pacman.log
HoldPkg     = pacman glibc
#XferCommand = /usr/bin/wget --passive-ftp -c -O %o %u

#
# REPOSITORIES
#   - can be defined here or included from another file
#   - pacman will search repositories in the order defined here
#   - local/custom mirrors can be added here or in separate files
#   - repositories listed first will take precedence when packages
#     have identical names, regardless of version number
#
# Repository entries are of the format:
#       [repo-name]
#       Server = ServerName
#       Include = IncludePath
#
# The header [repo-name] is crucial - it must be present and
# uncommented to enable the repo.
#

# Testing is disabled by default.  To enable, uncomment the following
# two lines.  You can add preferred servers immediately after the header,
# and they will be used before the default mirrors.
#[testing]
#Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

[core]
# Add your preferred servers here, they will be used first
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

[extra]
# Add your preferred servers here, they will be used first
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

[community]
# Add your preferred servers here, they will be used first
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

# Unstable is disabled by default.  To enable, uncomment the following
# two lines.  You can add preferred servers immediately after the header,
# and they will be used before the default mirrors.
[unstable]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

# An example of a custom package repository.  See the pacman manpage for
# tips on creating your own repositories.
#[custom]
#Server = file:///home/custompkgs

[archlinuxfr]
Server = http://repo.archlinux.fr/i686

Thanks in advance!

Misbah

Member

Registered: 2008-02-27

Posts: 218

Re: Is pacman really updating?

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Last edited by Misbah (2012-02-14 05:25:59)

Denacke

Member

Registered: 2008-04-09

Posts: 106

Re: Is pacman really updating?

Thanks, I changed my mirror to yours and now it's updating.

I was using mirrors from The Netherlands whom seem to be out of date.