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Spacenick

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From: Germany

Registered: 2010-04-02

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pacman -S base -r somedir broken

It says

sudo pacman -S base -r smnt
error: 'base': could not find or read package

wonder

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From: Bucharest, Romania

Registered: 2006-07-05

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Re: pacman -S base -r somedir broken

that is fine because you gave -r smnt

in smnt you don't have the database that pacman is using. pacman -Sy base -r smnt

i'm not sure if you need to created the directories first

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hokasch

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Registered: 2007-09-23

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Re: pacman -S base -r somedir broken

Works here. Did you merge the config files after last update? Can you install packages directly?

edit: ah well. ignore this post.

Last edited by hokasch (2010-06-25 18:41:03)

Spacenick

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From: Germany

Registered: 2010-04-02

Posts: 168

Re: pacman -S base -r somedir broken

I'm on Arch everything working normaly, i copied that line from the Wiki. So I guess that needs updating cause -Sy works ;-) thanks a lot for such quick help. Sorry stupid me it said that a few lines above in the wiki, I guess trying to do something like this a minute before leaving the house ain't such a good idea

Last edited by Spacenick (2010-06-25 20:47:56)

wonder

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Re: pacman -S base -r somedir broken

I'm on Arch everything working normaly, i copied that line from the Wiki. So I guess that needs updating cause -Sy works ;-) thanks a lot for such quick help.

link to the wiki please?

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Spacenick

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Registered: 2010-04-02

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Re: pacman -S base -r somedir broken

I just overread a line, and you are damn fast :-) too fast actually cause my edit wasn't done yet^^