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decaren

Member

Registered: 2009-04-17

Posts: 24

Corrupted package errors with pacman

I'm trying to install ardour with pacman.  I issue the sudo pacman -S ardour command and get the following pakages are corrupted.

liblo-0.25-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz
libsamplerate-0.1.7-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz
aubio-0.3.2-3-i686.pkg.tar.gz
ardour-2.5-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz

I have no idea where to start because I've never come across anything like this.  I've installed other packages after this attempt with no issue.  I have core, extra, community, kdemod-core, kdemod-extragear, and archlinuxfr activated in my pacman.conf.  Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks.

Snowman

Developer/Forum Fellow

From: Montreal, Canada

Registered: 2004-08-20

Posts: 5,212

Re: Corrupted package errors with pacman

Try again to install ardour. Pacman will redownload the packages that were corrupted.  If that doesn't work try using another mirror.

GregW

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From: 53°24'N 2°35'W

Registered: 2008-02-09

Posts: 56

Re: Corrupted package errors with pacman

I was just about to post a message regarding a very high number of corrupted packages since yesterday. I've tried with the stock arch kernel and my self compiled kernel that up until yesterday I had no problems with.

when arch fetches a package it downloads it to /var/cache/pacman/pkg you may have some .part files that are interrupted downloads. You could try deleting them incase it's related.

For me, it seems to be the larger packages that are failing. I managed to install iptables, but samba, openoffice, and a kernel update fail each time. I currently use
# Great Britain
Server = ftp://mirror.lividpenguin.com/pub/archl … /os/x86_64

although I have tried other pacman mirrors and re-sync'd with pacman -Syy to ensure I have the latest package list. My lan is a  skge card

Last edited by GregW (2009-04-21 21:36:31)

decaren

Member

Registered: 2009-04-17

Posts: 24

Re: Corrupted package errors with pacman

Well, I can't say exactly what it was.  I posted this hoping to get something before I got back from lunch.  I just did a pacman -Syy and then pacman -S ardour (which is exactly what I was doing before) and it worked this time.  Maybe since I was choosing yes to delete the corrupted package before and the last time maybe I chose no.  Don't know, but it's working.  Thanks for the help.

bwh1969

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Registered: 2008-01-05

Posts: 151

Re: Corrupted package errors with pacman

I encountered this error when I was at work, and still encounter it there, but not at home.  I don't understand why this happens but it seems that when the package files go through some systems, they become corrupted.  I have no reasonable explanation why this would happen and I am just offering the suggestion to try to download them elsewhere and see what happens.