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Keessince1988

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From: The Netherlands, Amsterdam

Registered: 2010-01-26

Posts: 6

Some software missing in the default repositories?

Hi,

I am a Debian Testing user so I'm new to Arch Linux and I can't find some packages; Unetbootin, Virtualbox and Wine.
In Debian apt-cache search [packagename] works perfectly, but pacman -Ss [packagename] doesn't seem to work as good.
Many queries don't work while the packages are in the Arch repository. So mostly I use apt-cache search to find software.
Is there a way to configure pacman to work better?

So are these three packages really not in the default repository?
If that's the case then what's the reason?

According to this Wiki article pacman -S wine should work (I use x86_x64). But nothing happens, the package can't be found...

I have the same issue with Virtualbox, according to this article it is not available for x86_64. Why is that?:/
There was a Romanian repository to get VBox for x86_64 but most of the time it's dead. And doing a Windows like installation doesn't seem tempting either.

Unetbootin is a total mystery to me...

Can anyone help?

Extra info:
Arch Linux x86_64 (up to date)
Default repositories, uncommented enough mirrors

Thanks in advance!

Last edited by Keessince1988 (2010-02-11 19:49:22)

wonder

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From: Bucharest, Romania

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Re: Some software missing in the default repositories?

virtualbox-ose and wine are not in x86_64 repository since they cannot be build on a native x86_64 system since we are not having a multilib toolachain.

to use wine, use bin32-wine from aur and for virtualbox you can use virtualbox_bin or my repo http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php? … 81#p631681

note: if you are using virtualbox_bin you need libpng12 from aur too.

Last edited by wonder (2010-02-11 19:58:15)

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Lars Stokholm

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From: Denmark

Registered: 2009-03-17

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Re: Some software missing in the default repositories?

According to this Wiki article pacman -S wine should work (I use x86_x64).

Actually, that's not true. http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wine#x86_64

jowilkin

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Registered: 2009-05-07

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Re: Some software missing in the default repositories?

note: if you are using virtualbox_bin you need libpng12 from aur too.

You sure? I use virtualbox_bin with the new libpng 1.4 installed and no libpng12 package.

wonder

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Re: Some software missing in the default repositories?

note: if you are using virtualbox_bin you need libpng12 from aur too.

You sure? I use virtualbox_bin with the new libpng 1.4 installed and no libpng12 package.

i'm quite sure. i've seen a lot of users complain about virtualbox_bin and the vm's that went start and had an error.

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agapito

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Registered: 2008-11-13

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Re: Some software missing in the default repositories?

Here is a pkgbuild for native wine 64 bits http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=24855 But you can run only 64 bits windows apps. Sometimes doesn't compile.

If you want wine 32bits on your 64 bits system then here:  http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=7915 but you need a lot of 32bits libs.

For virtualbox you can install closed source edition with usb support. Works fine on 64 bits system http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=9753

Last edited by agapito (2010-02-12 14:52:26)

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Daenyth

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From: Boston, MA

Registered: 2008-02-24

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Re: Some software missing in the default repositories?

bin32-wine is also available in the Arch-Games repo

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Keessince1988

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From: The Netherlands, Amsterdam

Registered: 2010-01-26

Posts: 6

Re: Some software missing in the default repositories?

Thanks everyone for the helpful information!

When I can run Virtualbox, Unetbootin and Wine then I'll be happy with Arch

@ wonder
I added your repository, every time I do pacman -Suy I get the error; "error: failed retreiving file 'core.db.tar.gz' from archlinux.ro : Not Found" 
Any thoughts?

Allan

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Re: Some software missing in the default repositories?

Just add

[vbox]
Server = http://archlinux.ro/~ioni/vbox

to your pacman.conf.

Do not add that to your mirrorlist file.

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milomak

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Registered: 2009-11-04

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Re: Some software missing in the default repositories?

would pacman automatically pick up packages in this repo?

tomk

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Re: Some software missing in the default repositories?

As nobody else has mentioned it (not surprising really), I'll just add that unetbootin is in the AUR - follow the AUR link above, read the right docs, and it's all yours.