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Carlwill

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From: Orlando, FL

Registered: 2008-10-06

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Unable To Find Package in Pacman

I am trying to install a package from 'Community' repo called Virtualbox & for some reason Pacman can't locate this and I don't know why. It comes up when I search for it on the Arch main page via my Firefox browser but it's not visible in Pacman. Anyone know why I am missing it?

[carlos@tuna ~]$ sudo pacman -Syy
:: Synchronizing package databases...
 core                      36.3K  332.3K/s 00:00:00 [###################################################################################################################################] 100%
 extra                    447.5K 1227.4K/s 00:00:00 [###################################################################################################################################] 100%
 community                367.8K 1004.0K/s 00:00:00 [###################################################################################################################################] 100%

Above I can clearly see the 'community' repo is updated 100%.

Now when I search for the package:

[carlos@tuna ~]$ sudo pacman -Ss virtualbox-ose
[carlos@tuna ~]$

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n0dix

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Registered: 2009-09-22

Posts: 956

Re: Unable To Find Package in Pacman

Here the link in AUR: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=11508

wonder

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From: Bucharest, Romania

Registered: 2006-07-05

Posts: 5,941

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Re: Unable To Find Package in Pacman

virtualbox-ose is available in community only for i686. i maintain a repo with virtualbox-ose for x86_64: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php? … 81#p631681

the thread also say why virtualbox-ose is not in community.

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