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xendistar

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Registered: 2011-10-02

Posts: 8

[Solved] KDE won't install

I am installing ArchLinux for the first time, I am using an old Acer latop. I downloaded the base CD and then followed the instruction from the Wiki and got through to the end with a working X system. I wanted to install KDE so I entered the following at the command line

pacman -S kde
(as root)

This gave me over 250 files to download and install so I just let the laptop get on with downloading and installing the files.  Unfortunately it failed to install kde (it did not even try, I assume because of some form of dependency) as It failed to download 9 files. The 9 files are

libpulse-0.9.23-1-i686.pkg
pango-1.28.4-3-i686.pkg
upower-0.9.12-1-i686.pkg
libcanberra-0.28-1-i686.pkg
libffi-3.0.010-1-i686.pkg
telepathy-glib-0.15.4-1-i686.pkg
pygobject2-devel-2.28.6-1-i686.pkg
python2-gobject2-2.28.6-1-i686.pkg

(I have left off the .tar.xz from each file name)

The system tried to download load the file 6 time from different repositories and the failing message was either Unknown resolver or file not found.

Can anybody please advise

Tim

Last edited by xendistar (2011-10-03 06:13:44)

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: [Solved] KDE won't install

You should use the website package search to check the versions e.g. http://www.archlinux.org/packages/?sort … =&limit=50
These packages you can't find have been updated recently and you need to update your local package database to make pacman aware of the changes.  Run 'pacman -Syu' and try again.
If you need a fresh mirrorlist, use http://www.archlinux.org/mirrorlist/

Last edited by karol (2011-10-02 17:58:02)

xendistar

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Registered: 2011-10-02

Posts: 8

Re: [Solved] KDE won't install

Thanks, running pacman-Syu resolved the issue

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: [Solved] KDE won't install

Please mark this thread as solved.