Arch Linux pacman error: failed retrieving file
I just installed Arch Linux today. I am trying to install elinks using
pacman -S elinks
And I get a long, long list of:
error: failed retrieving file 'elinks-0.13-17-i686.pkg.tar.xz' from some.mirror : Could not resolve host: some.mirror
The same happens if I try to install any other software. The only thing I could think of based on what I read is a connection problem, but I’m on the same connection that I used to install the OS, and that was just a few minutes ago.
I found an answer, thanks to jasonwryan’s comment.
I tried lots of things to get my ethernet connection to work and it still didn’t work till I researched the netctl command (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/netctl, man netctl).
ls /etc/netctl revealed that there were no profiles in my /etc/netctl folder, so I ran
cp /etc/netctl/examples/ethernet-dhcp /etc/netctl
netctl start ethernet-dhcp
Before that, I had run (from https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=151483)
systemctl enable dhcpcd@eth0.service
systemctl start dhcpcd@eth0.service
And voila, the internet was working. Not sure which of the commands was responsible, but now it works.
Although this has been answered, I encountered the same issue. I resolved it by updating my databases while installing. For instance:
sudo pacman -Syu elinks
You can also download the package(pkg.tar.zst file) manually and use the command
sudo pacman -U package_name.pkg.tar.zst
I used this method as sudo pacman -Syu command wanted to install few extra packages of total size ~200mb, and all i have was a 8kb/s net connection
Update your pacman mirrors:
sudo pacman-mirrors -g