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#1 2009-08-16 09:18:42

kitabu
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Registered: 2009-08-16
Posts: 6

installing OpenBox fails to retrieve some files from extra [solved]

Hi everyone,

Being a fairly newbie to Arch, I have some problems with installing Openbox. When I do a:

pacman -Sy openbox

I get this error:

error: failed retrieving file 'libxml2-2.7.3-3.i686.pkg.tar.gz' from miror.lividpenguin.com : Not Found
warning: failed to fetch some files from extra
error: failed to commit transaction (Not Found)
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

As the forum suggests, I have tried to change to a different mirror by choosing various different ones in the /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist. I have also uncommented the extra repository in /etc/pacman.conf. Still, I get the above error. What is the workaround here? As I look forward to get my Eeepc 901 up and running with a graphical interface, any help would be highly appriciated. Regards Bjarke

Last edited by kitabu (2009-12-20 10:36:15)

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#2 2009-08-16 09:31:01

peart
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From: Kanuckistan
Registered: 2003-07-28
Posts: 510

Re: installing OpenBox fails to retrieve some files from extra [solved]

I'm not sure why you aren't finding it, but it is available on this mirror.

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#3 2009-08-16 09:47:02

rusty99
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Registered: 2009-03-18
Posts: 253

Re: installing OpenBox fails to retrieve some files from extra [solved]

Are you running pacman -Syy after changing mirrors?

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#4 2009-08-16 17:13:16

kitabu
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Registered: 2009-08-16
Posts: 6

Re: installing OpenBox fails to retrieve some files from extra [solved]

Hi again,
Thank you for the swift reply. Peart, changing to the above mirror did the trick :-). I am not sure whether I have ever issued the command suggested by rusty. I will of course bear this in mind when tinkering with mirrors list next time.

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