0.6 base installation

TheHoff · 2004-10-29 20:06:09

It looks like the pacman on the 0.6-base CD is broken; it's linked against a non-existant libz.so.1. Also, I don't see a pacman.static anywhere on the CD that was mentioned somewhere on these forms.

Why hasn't this been fixed? Or why hasn't this been mentioned somewhere on the webpage? It seems wrong that a stable release should be completely broken and be a cause of wasted time and CDRs.

-- John

phrakture · 2004-10-29 20:26:01

I can understand your frustration - however the fact that it is not mentioned anywhere (and I have never heard of this problem) says to me that your ISO image or even burned CD is corrupt.
Try redownloading it and perhaps checksumming it.

The 0.7 ISO is fully working (IMHO), so I'd do that.

Dusty · 2004-10-29 20:28:08

Try 0.7 beta....

Nobody has mentioned this problem before, and I can't understand how it could suddenly just break for no reason..... its surprising what happens though.

People have had less trouble with 0.7 beta than 0.6 in other regards though.

Dusty

TheHoff · 2004-10-29 22:39:18

Well, it HAS been mentioned, but only once on the forum... I also assumed at first that it was my CD, but someone else ran into it: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php? … light=libz

But anyhoo, just downloaded the 0.7 beta and am going to go give that a try!

-- John

Dusty · 2004-10-29 22:54:06

Good Luck! Hope it works for you!

xerxes2 · 2004-10-29 23:27:43

good luck from europe also, it might help,

TheHoff · 2004-10-30 00:22:49

Ahhhhh, that's the stuff. 0.7 is delicious.

Thanks guys!

-- John

alakazam · 2004-10-30 15:22:19

No, 0.6 IS broken for everyone, not just you ( as I found out last night ) AN dunfortunately, that solution doesn't work that you linked to.

HOWEVER: I CAN FIND NO LOINK TO DOWNLOAD 0.7 BETA :(

skeeterbug · 2004-10-30 15:38:26

It worked fine for me when I installed off of it but whatever. To get 0.7 you need to go to http://www.archlinux.org/download.php, pick one of the mirrors and navigate to 0.7/iso/i686.

I don't know if there's a torrent link anywhere.

alakazam · 2004-10-30 15:57:32

skeeterbug wrote:

It worked fine for me when I installed off of it but whatever. To get 0.7 you need to go to http://www.archlinux.org/download.php, pick one of the mirrors and navigate to 0.7/iso/i686.
I don't know if there's a torrent link anywhere.

How long ago did you try to install this 0.6? These are posts from yesterday and today, and I also tried installing from 0.6 yesterday.

BTW, I am hopfuling someone can submitt Arch to the linux mirror project where htey store torrents for all distros

http://www.tlm-project.org/

skeeterbug · 2004-10-30 17:56:28

I don't know a week or two ago - but the 0.6 cd should be the same. The md5sum for my iso is 67fc97e08adf467428c8d3edf38adc72 which matches the arch site. I assume you're talking about the 'base' cd as the op was.

The link to the other thread appears to refer to an ftp install which I didn't do, I just installed it off of CD, set it up and used pacman to update it.

The link you sent looks pretty neat, I don't know if the boss wants to widely mirror the beta or not. I think that everything should have a torrent available these days.

TheHoff · 2004-10-30 20:34:11

From what I gather, it looks like the problem is the the 0.6-base ISO and not the full 0.6 ISO.

-- John

paranoos · 2004-11-01 02:22:57

0.6 should not have been touched since it was released, so if this is a problem, everyone would have encountered it. i installed 0.6 ages ago.

as far as i know, pacman has always been compiled statically, which is why it has no dependencies. frankly, i do not understand this problem at all.

Xentac · 2004-11-01 02:29:42

The problem is that now pacman isn't compiled statically.

apeiro · 2004-11-02 19:53:47

The 0.6 (base and full) ISO will only break for FTP installs. CD-based installs will still work fine.

Use 0.7-beta2 or the disk images to do an FTP install.

Note: I've also managed to break modprobe in 0.7-beta2, but this won't affect most of you, and insmod still works. The problem is fixed in CVS for 0.7-final, and the fixed disk images are up on FTP now.

Lugash · 2004-11-06 12:58:09

I got the same error trying to install Arch 0.7b1. The solution is somewhere on Wiki:

- find the executable pacman
- in the same directory there should be an executable called "pacman.static".
- rename pacman to something else (e.g.: pacman.dynam)
- cp pacman.static pacman

Worked for me!

PS: I don't know if this fix only works for 0.7b1 or if it's a "platform" fix, I've only used 0.7b1.

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