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vpoinot

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Registered: 2009-04-09

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[SOLVED] pacman: cannot open package file

I upgraded my system this morning (with pacman -Syu) and everything went well.
Now I am trying to install some new packages:

pacman -U extra/phonon-xine

and I get this message: "cannot open package file

[root@chaplin ~]# pacman -U extra/phonon-xine
loading package data...
error: 'extra/phonon-xine': cannot open package file

Phonon-xine is not the culprit: I tried with some other packages, I always get this error.
What's wrong now ?

Last edited by vpoinot (2009-09-05 20:28:10)

wonder

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Re: [SOLVED] pacman: cannot open package file

pacman -S phonon-xine
you want to use pacman -U  when you have a _local_ package e.g pacman -U package.pkg.tar.gz

really, i suggest you to read the manual. man pacman, http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pacman

Last edited by wonder (2009-08-29 09:08:04)

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vpoinot

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Registered: 2009-04-09

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Re: [SOLVED] pacman: cannot open package file

Ok, my bad.
I have so many issues these days (Akonadi, strigi, Nepomuk, sound, video, etc.) that I hastily concluded this was just an other hiccup...
Sorry.

djszapi

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Re: [SOLVED] pacman: cannot open package file

Hello vpoinot!

If it works you can change the topic as 'Solved' as others

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