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perogad

Member

Registered: 2009-07-21

Posts: 6

Pacman error

I'm doing a whole new install (inside VmWare Workstation 6.5.2) and i got stuck on refreshing package list. It gives me this:

# pacman -Sy

error: no operation specified (use -h for help)

German servers are enabled in /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist.

How to solve this?

Thanks.

jelly

Administrator

From: /dev/null

Registered: 2008-06-10

Posts: 716

Re: Pacman error

force to sync the mirrors first with pacman -Syy
but it seems like you are having a readline/pacman /more serious problems then just mirrros

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shining

Pacman Developer

Registered: 2006-05-10

Posts: 2,043

Re: Pacman error

That's very weird.
Do all pacman commands return that?

What about other tools, you have no problems with them?

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pacman roulette : pacman -S $(pacman -Slq | LANG=C sort -R | head -n $((RANDOM % 10)))

perogad

Member

Registered: 2009-07-21

Posts: 6

Re: Pacman error

Every pacman command returns the same error over and over again....

The whole installation went fine till this step, but now i don't know how to continue.

Now i'm going to try to install it normally, outside VmWare, and see how it will behave.

perogad

Member

Registered: 2009-07-21

Posts: 6

Re: Pacman error

Well, finally caught some free time to do a clean install, and it now works.

But, i have another question - since KDE is now more modular, is it possible to install only selected packages (not package groups or meta packages)?

For example, is it possible to choose only "kcalc" (package group: kdeutils; meta package: kde-meta-kdeutils)?

It' gives me an error that it can't find it.... Also, if i run "pacman -S kdeadmin-kuser" it tries to install the usual KDE bloat, instead of just "kdeadmin-kuser"....

Btw, why isn't "kdebase-workspace" listed under wiki overview of KDE packages?

Thanks.

shining

Pacman Developer

Registered: 2006-05-10

Posts: 2,043

Re: Pacman error

pacman -Ss kcalc
extra/kdeutils-kcalc 4.3.0-1 [0,15 MB] (kde kdeutils)
    Scientific Calculator

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pacman roulette : pacman -S $(pacman -Slq | LANG=C sort -R | head -n $((RANDOM % 10)))

perogad

Member

Registered: 2009-07-21

Posts: 6

Re: Pacman error

pacman -Ss kcalc
extra/kdeutils-kcalc 4.3.0-1 [0,15 MB] (kde kdeutils)
    Scientific Calculator

OK, that was a wrong command....

But if i put "pacman -S kdeutils-kcalc" it tries to install gstreamer, cdparanoia, jasper, soprano, sqlite, etc. Well, i understand that every package has it's dependencies, but i just want the necessary ones, not 130MB of it. The whole KDE minimal install on Debian weights about 180MB. Don't get me wrong, Arch is great, but is it possible to do sth similar with it?

To be exact, it possible to instruct pacman to install really just the bare minimum with selected packages like: kdeadmin-kuser, kdebase-workspace, kde-dolphin, kdepim-notes,....?