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jmikkola

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[Solved] newly installed Arch is out of date, even after sysupgrade

Hi, complete Arch newbie here. I just got my first [working] Arch install finished this afternoon

There's one thing that bugs me about it: things seem out of date, even after updating with pacman (I tried 'pacman -Syu' and 'pacman -Sy --sysupgrade'). Firefox is version 3.6.8, which is way behind the current version, 3.6.13. The kernel is also old, 2.6.34 instead of 2.6.36. I don't claim to have exhaustive knowledge of the Arch philosophy, so there may be a good reason for this that I'm just not seeing, or I may just be doing something wrong. I was under the impression, however, that Arch is supposed to be 'bleeding edge'?

Anyway, how do I get things like Firefox up to date? I don't care that much about the kernel version, since for the time being I'm only running it on an old machine.
Thanks.

Last edited by jmikkola (2010-12-19 21:40:15)

Mr Green

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Re: [Solved] newly installed Arch is out of date, even after sysupgrade

Sounds odd did pacman update itself? what version of pacman do you have installed, database does seem to be way out of date

 pacman -Qi pacman

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Dogmeat

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Re: [Solved] newly installed Arch is out of date, even after sysupgrade

Your first mirror listed in /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist is out of sync. Choose another one from Mirror Status.

SS4

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Re: [Solved] newly installed Arch is out of date, even after sysupgrade

Did you manually refresh the database with

pacman -Syyu

You may also need to check your mirrorlist to make sure yours is up to date?

You can find the mirrorlist here: http://www.archlinux.org/mirrors/status/

In the meantime if you need a browser you could always grab firefox-nightly from the AUR

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jmikkola

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Re: [Solved] newly installed Arch is out of date, even after sysupgrade

My pacman version is 3.4.0-2

The mirror I was using appears to be current.

I'll try firefox-nightly, thanks.

Dogmeat

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Re: [Solved] newly installed Arch is out of date, even after sysupgrade

My pacman version is 3.4.0-2

The mirror I was using appears to be current.

I'll try firefox-nightly, thanks.

Current version of pacman is pacman 3.4.1-1. Your mirror can't be "current" then.

Mr Green

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Re: [Solved] newly installed Arch is out of date, even after sysupgrade

Pacman is out of date....

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Re: [Solved] newly installed Arch is out of date, even after sysupgrade

Or even pacman-mirrorlist for that matter

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jmikkola

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Re: [Solved] newly installed Arch is out of date, even after sysupgrade

Ah. I had meant that the mirror was not listed as being out of date on the status page.

How do you update pacman? I tried telling it to update itself, but it appeared to think that it was up to date already, and it just reinstalled it.

Thanks for all your help.

Mr Green

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Re: [Solved] newly installed Arch is out of date, even after sysupgrade

clear pacman from cache and try again

pacman -Sc

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Dogmeat

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Re: [Solved] newly installed Arch is out of date, even after sysupgrade

Ah. I had meant that the mirror was not listed as being out of date on the status page.

How do you update pacman? I tried telling it to update itself, but it appeared to think that it was up to date already, and it just reinstalled it.

Thanks for all your help.

Change the first mirror in /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist. For example with

Server = http://mirrors.kernel.org/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch

but I'm not sure if pacman 3.4.0 can handle $arch variable. If not, then replace $arch by i686 or x86_64.

Then run pacman -Syyu.

jmikkola

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Re: [Solved] newly installed Arch is out of date, even after sysupgrade

Thanks, Dogmeat. That worked.