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L1nUx Cr@zy

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Registered: 2011-03-02

Posts: 3

Repositories

Hi, I recently installed Arch on my computer, and everything is fine except when i try to add pacman repos.  I try to goto /etc/pacman.conf , and it says "-bash blah blah "permission denied".  When i put in that command, I was using my root login. Also where do I find the repositories?

drcouzelis

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From: Connecticut, USA

Registered: 2009-11-09

Posts: 4,092

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Re: Repositories

Which command did you try?

I'm worried that you may need to do some more studying before you are ready to use Arch Linux...

Inxsible

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From: Chicago

Registered: 2008-06-09

Posts: 9,183

Re: Repositories

/etc is owned by root, so obviously its not going to let your user account fiddle with it.

and what do you mean you want to find repositories?

Arch has 3 official repos - core, extra and community. AUR is an unofficial repo. Other than that, if you cannot find packages in any of the repos (highly unlikely) - you should just compile it and build from source

EDIT : +1  to drcouzelis

Last edited by Inxsible (2011-03-09 21:51:02)

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tomk

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From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,839

Re: Repositories

/etc/pacman.conf is a file, not a command. The repositories are already listed in that file, and the default settings are recommended.

If you decide to change it, use your preferred text editor.

ANOKNUSA

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Registered: 2010-10-22

Posts: 2,141

Re: Repositories

And as a side note, "bash blah blah blah" isn't what you'd call informative; no one can help you if you don't bother describing the actual problem.  And based on the threads you've opened thus far, I might have to agree with Ixsible and drcouzelis; maybe you should check out the stuff on the first wiki page and evaluate your decision to use Arch for now.

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