Problems Updating for the first time in a long time

Benedict_White · 2010-01-14 11:56:09

I have an Arch Linux box which has not been updated since 2007, but now I need to update it.

There have been several changes in the way pacman works and this is making life a bit problematic.

I have downloaded the latest pacman files manually (xz-utils-4.999.9beta-1 attr-2.4.44-1 acl-2.2.48-1 libarchive-2.7.1-1 libfetch-2.26-1 pacman-mirrorlist-20091206-1 pacman-3.3.3-1) but now can't get them to install now with a pacman -U as I now get errors like this:

attr: syntax error in description file line 19
attr: syntax error in description file line 20
attr: syntax error in description file line 21
attr: syntax error in description file line 22
attr: syntax error in description file line 23

There appears to be a hole in my bucket. Any suggestions?

.:B:. · 2010-01-14 12:06:08

Untarring the stuff manually, then running a forced reinstall of the packages involved?

I know it's kinda pointless asking, but what the hell are you doing with a box that goes 2 years without updating, and now suddenly 'needs' an update?

Benedict_White · 2010-01-14 12:35:12

B.. er.. it did not need updating because it worked doing what it was doing, but now has problems with Mediawiki and PHP, so I thought I would start with an update..

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#1 2010-01-14 11:56:09

Problems Updating for the first time in a long time

#2 2010-01-14 12:06:08

Re: Problems Updating for the first time in a long time

#3 2010-01-14 12:35:12

Re: Problems Updating for the first time in a long time

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