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axle

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Registered: 2008-09-10

Posts: 12

[SOLVED] can't install xorg

Hi everyone

This is my second time installing Arch (I had no problems the first time), and I've encountered a problem and I'm not sure what to do.

I'm following the beginners guide exactly, and I've reached the step where you install xorg.  I type this in: pacman -S xorg, and all the files download except one, and I get this error (I don't have a printer, and I didn't write down the error word for word, but it's basically this) :

"Failed retrieving file 'damageproto-1.1.0-1.pkg.tar.gz'" 

and then it lists the server, and it also tries to download it from the Arch server in extra, and fails to download it from there too. I've tried several different servers, and it can't find it on any of them. So basically at this point I can't go any further, since it won't install any of the files for xorg.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Last edited by axle (2009-04-02 00:57:21)

skottish

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Registered: 2006-06-16

Posts: 7,942

Re: [SOLVED] can't install xorg

There was an update to damageproto yesterday. This means that your server(s) are out of date. Anyway,

For i686:

wget http://archlinux.unixheads.org/extra/os/i686/damageproto-1.1.0-2-i686.pkg.tar.gz

For x86_64:

wget http://archlinux.unixheads.org/extra/os/x86_64/damageproto-1.1.0-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz

axle

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Registered: 2008-09-10

Posts: 12

Re: [SOLVED] can't install xorg

There was an update to damageproto yesterday. This means that your server(s) are out of date. Anyway,

For i686:

wget http://archlinux.unixheads.org/extra/os/i686/damageproto-1.1.0-2-i686.pkg.tar.gz

For x86_64:

wget http://archlinux.unixheads.org/extra/os/x86_64/damageproto-1.1.0-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz

Wow thanks for the quick response...I'll try this right now

skottish

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Re: [SOLVED] can't install xorg

Sure. That'll just download it though. You'll need to install it with with pacman -U <package_name>

Mr.Elendig

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Re: [SOLVED] can't install xorg

Or you can simply pacman -U the url.....

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skottish

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Re: [SOLVED] can't install xorg

Or you can simply pacman -U the url.....

It's funny, I've done exactly what you just said at least 20 times since I've been at Arch. I guess reading the monster thread is making me a little stoooopid.

axle

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Registered: 2008-09-10

Posts: 12

Re: [SOLVED] can't install xorg

Sure. That'll just download it though. You'll need to install it with with pacman -U <package_name>

Thanks   Yup I realized this after I downloaded it.