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BartVG

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Registered: 2007-09-10

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failing desktop environment because of cairo, libthai, ...

I spent the whole evening trying to install xfce, openbox, fluxbox, kde and lastly gnome on a new Arch system, but they all fail on the package 'cairo-1.8.8-2-i686.pkg.tar.gz'. Does that really mean that I can't do any graphics work on my new system?
I tried severall different mirrors: they all choke on that cairo thing...

loafer

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Registered: 2009-04-14

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Re: failing desktop environment because of cairo, libthai, ...

Does that really mean that I can't do any graphics work on my new system?.

Not at all.  What is the error.  What mirors have you tried?  Are they up-to-date?

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BartVG

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Registered: 2007-09-10

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Re: failing desktop environment because of cairo, libthai, ...

The error is: failed retrieving file cairo-1.8.8-2-i686.pkg.tar.gz. I tried almost every mirror in the mirrorlist file (i.e. the file that comes with a new installation.
How can I check if those mirrors are up to date?

loafer

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Re: failing desktop environment because of cairo, libthai, ...

Have you updated pacman since it's a new install?

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smakked

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From: Gold Coast , Australia

Registered: 2008-08-14

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Re: failing desktop environment because of cairo, libthai, ...

As above give:

pacman -Syy

followed by

pacman -Syu

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loafer

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Re: failing desktop environment because of cairo, libthai, ...

The file is actually "cairo-1.8.10-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz" so you mirror looks well out of date.  I'm using the livid penguin one for the UK.  You can check here:

https://users.archlinux.de/~gerbra/mirrorcheck.html

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BartVG

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Registered: 2007-09-10

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Re: failing desktop environment because of cairo, libthai, ...

As above give:

pacman -Syy

followed by

pacman -Syu

I did the second one, but not the first one, if I remember well. Let's try that.

BartVG

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Re: failing desktop environment because of cairo, libthai, ...

I worked!