[SOLVED] Unable to download Libreoffice.

Hoest · 2011-05-19 23:30:15

Hello all,

I've been trying to download and install libreoffice by running "pacman -S libreoffice" but I am repeatedly getting an error message saying "error: 'libreoffice': could not find or read package". I checked the wiki but found no mention of this problem, and I also made sure in the pacman.conf file that the Extra repo was not commented.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Last edited by Hoest (2011-05-20 05:43:24)

SS4 · 2011-05-19 23:35:22

Works fine here, is your system up to date? Run

pacman -Sy libreoffice

Hoest · 2011-05-19 23:37:24

SS4 wrote:

Works fine here, is your system up to date? Run
pacman -Sy libreoffice

Yes, core, extra, and community are all up to date according to that, but I still get the same message for libreoffice though.

SS4 · 2011-05-19 23:39:53

You could check your mirror status but other than that I'm stumped, I cannot reproduce the problem

tlmiller · 2011-05-19 23:51:00

Try commenting out your first mirror or 2. Every time I've had this issue it's been because a mirror was out of sync.

Hoest · 2011-05-20 00:00:33

I tried several mirrors and I'm still getting the same message.

Meyithi · 2011-05-20 00:08:42

It has to be a mirror problem, if it was any sort of connection problem you would get another error. Please be aware that the first uncommented mirror will be used no matter how many you uncomment below it, you probably keep connecting to an out of date mirror.

When you change mirror, remember to resync your mirror with -Syy.

http://www.archlinux.org/mirrors/status/
http://www.archlinux.org/mirrorlist/

Last edited by Meyithi (2011-05-20 00:10:24)

Hoest · 2011-05-20 00:15:09

Meyithi wrote:

It has to be a mirror problem, if it was any sort of connection problem you would get another error. Please be aware that the first uncommented mirror will be used no matter how many you uncomment below it, you probably keep connecting to an out of date mirror.
When you change mirror, remember to resync your mirror with -Syy.
http://www.archlinux.org/mirrors/status/
http://www.archlinux.org/mirrorlist/

I updated the mirrorlist and ran -Syy and it's giving me this:
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/core.db: Failed to open '/var/lib/pacman/sync/core.db'
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/extra.db: Failed to open '/var/lib/pacman/sync/extra.db'
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/community.db: Failed to open '/var/lib/pacman/sync/community.db'
error: target not found: libreoffice

TigTex · 2011-05-20 03:04:40

Run as root:

pacman-db-upgrade

Then use the mirror

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

After that do

pacman -Syyu

Reboot if needed.

Hoest · 2011-05-20 05:43:03

TigTex wrote:

Run as root:
pacman-db-upgrade
Then use the mirror
Server = http://mirrors.kernel.org/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
After that do
pacman -Syyu
Reboot if needed.

That did it! Thank you very much.

Arch Linux

#1 2011-05-19 23:30:15

[SOLVED] Unable to download Libreoffice.

#2 2011-05-19 23:35:22

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#4 2011-05-19 23:39:53

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#6 2011-05-20 00:00:33

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