Internet OK. I CANT CONNECT to Repos using PACMAN

Blake Gideon · 2009-09-15 03:34:27

I'm 99.9% sure my wifi is set up correctly.

ping -c 2 www.google.com

Output: 2 Packets Transmitted/Received 0% Packet Loss

Since I have a connection to the internet, I thought it would be awesome to install xfce!
Pacman needs python to find the fastest connection!

pacman -S python
python package not found, searching for group...
error: 'python': not found in sync db

So I spend at least 45 minutes going over the pacman.conf docs. I try messing with the /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist so all mirrors in the USA are represented to start with.

pacman.conf is all defaults... so I have this under core, extra, community:

Include= /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

I overwrote /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist to look like:

Server = ftp://locke.suu.edu/linux/dist/archlinux/$repo/os/x86_64
#...etc etc

Then I try to use pacman to install python and it does not work. I am stumped. Prompt help would be greatly appreciated, I would like to be up and running xfce tonight. Thank you for taking time out of your day to help someone!:D

[root]# pacman -S python
python package not found, searching for group...
error: 'python': not found in sync db

Allan · 2009-09-15 03:37:27

Blake Gideon wrote:

I'm 99.9% sure my wifi is set up correctly.

Edit: Ignore my adivse... saw some output to the contrary at the end of your post.

A "pacman -Syyu" should get you on your way.

SamC · 2009-09-15 03:37:38

Try pacman -Syu first.

Zack89 · 2009-09-15 03:42:37

Well if you can do a ping then you are definitly online.. If there was a problem with your servers then it would output it couldnt find the repos.. Have you done a repo sync? If not:

 pacman -Sy

the -Sy flag says to sync your repos so pacman can find a specific package. It needs to know the pkg exists on there. Also if you do:

 pacman -Syu

you can do a repo sync then full system upgrade at the same time.

Blake Gideon · 2009-09-15 03:50:53

Looks like pacman -Syu is running. Thanks. Gotta wait for a big download.

fukawi2 · 2009-09-15 03:54:58

You only just installed didn't you?

After a fresh install, pacman only has a list of the packages in 'core' cached on disk. You have to run `pacman -Sy` to get pacman to download/update a the list of packages in 'extra' and 'community' otherwise you get the error you've been getting

Blake Gideon · 2009-09-15 03:55:09

Everything is working great! Thanks Everyone.

toofishes · 2009-09-15 04:04:14

Oh YES I love TITLES like THIS!!! What is the INTERNETS!

sand_man · 2009-09-15 04:07:50

I Cannots Conect To Teh Pacamn

(how did you get all caps to work ?)

Last edited by sand_man (2009-09-15 04:08:12)

Mardoct · 2009-09-15 04:12:46

THIS phrase seems to BE ARBITRARILY all capped at SOME points.

Allan · 2009-09-15 04:19:36

And.... lets close this now....

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