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windowbreaker

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Registered: 2008-06-18

Posts: 46

where is libevent? (needed by tor)

My goal is to install tor. When I issue the following command

pacman -Sy tor

I receive the following error

resolving dependencies...
error: cannot resolve "libevent>=1.3e", a dependency of "tor"
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: tor: requires libevent>=1.3e

Doing a search with 'pacman -Ss libevent' returns nothing.
Doing a search with 'yaourt -Ss libevent' returns the following

aur/haskell-codec-libevent 0.1.2-1
    Cross-platform structure serialisation
aur/pyevent 0.3-1
    python interface to libevent

So, where is libevent?  I've seen other users referring to libevent in their posts, so I am assuming that I am in error here and must be missing something obvious.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Garns

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Registered: 2008-05-28

Posts: 239

Re: where is libevent? (needed by tor)

My goal is to install tor. When I issue the following command

pacman -Sy tor

I receive the following error

resolving dependencies...
error: cannot resolve "libevent>=1.3e", a dependency of "tor"
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: tor: requires libevent>=1.3e

Doing a search with 'pacman -Ss libevent' returns nothing.
Doing a search with 'yaourt -Ss libevent' returns the following

aur/haskell-codec-libevent 0.1.2-1
    Cross-platform structure serialisation
aur/pyevent 0.3-1
    python interface to libevent

So, where is libevent?  I've seen other users referring to libevent in their posts, so I am assuming that I am in error here and must be missing something obvious.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

$ pacman -Ss libevent
core/libevent 1.3e-1
    a mechanism to execute a callback function when a specific event occurs on a file descriptor or after a timeout has been reached

This is strange, libevent is in [core], only things I can think of is a mirror problem or you have deactivated [core] in pacman.conf .

I doubt that you commented out core . You could try resynching with a different mirror (edit /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist and do pacman -Syy)

windowbreaker

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Registered: 2008-06-18

Posts: 46

Re: where is libevent? (needed by tor)

Thanks for the suggestion.  I had tried changing mirrors already and it didn't work.  However, this time I forced it to synchronize the core db with the new mirror.  The way I did it was by deleting /var/lib/pacman/sync/core/.lastupdate.  It then found libevent and upgraded it. 

Question:  Is there an easier way to force pacman to refresh the core db?

Allan

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From: Brisbane, AU

Registered: 2007-06-09

Posts: 11,395

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Re: where is libevent? (needed by tor)

As Garns pointed out above, "pacman -Syy" forces a refresh of the pacman database.

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