pacman doesn't download dependencies with -S and -w? I got this weird thing going on where, pacman -S -w awesome xorg-xinit xorg-server xorg-server-utils pacman doesn’t download all the required dependencies. The reason for downloading the packages is because I’m creating a local repo with only the specific packages to my neededs. (instead of downloading the …
How can I keep two versions of the same package in archlinux? I’m running Archlinux. Recently, one of the package named icu got updated; however, Firefox depends libicuuc.so.56, while R depends on libicuuc.so.55. How can I solve this problem? Note: the R package was built against Intel MKL libiary, so it doesn’t work on new …
pacman "exists on filesystem" error I ran sudo pacman -Syu and I got some interesting errors reading: error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files) and a long list of files followed by exists in filesystem. Full output is here: http://ix.io/lLw It appears that many of these files are not associated with a package when I …
List that contains the last installed / upgraded packages in Arch Linux How can I get a list of packages, that last installed / upgraded by pacman / yaourt in Arch Linux including the timestamp? Asked By: BuZZ-dEE || Source To get a list of last installed packages, you can run: grep -i installed /var/log/pacman.log …
How do you downgrade multiple packages in arch linux? I am trying to downgrade the vim package on arch linux to an earlier version (as I need to use an earlier version of ruby which breaks it [ref]). running downgrade vim and selecting the version complains that I need to downgrade the vim-runtime package. trying …
Should I let pacman replace glamor-egl with xorg-server? This is the output of pacman. I installed nothing; just wanted to update… :: Synchronizing package databases… core is up to date extra 1761.1 KiB 2.58M/s 00:01 [#######################################################################] 100% community 2.3 MiB 2.25M/s 00:01 [#######################################################################] 100% multilib 121.2 KiB 1236K/s 00:00 [#######################################################################] 100% :: Starting full system …
How do I enable rsync in libcurl? I’m on Arch. When pacman tries to download a package from an ftp server, It fails with the error message Protocol rsync not supported or disabled in libcurl This has been bugging me for a little while now, but I can’t remember what I did to cause it …
How to delete old packages installed by pacman in Arch Linux? I have recently installed Arch Linux and found that I am eating away at a lot of storage relatively quickly. For whatever reason I have already used 17GB in just about 2 weeks. I do not have a great deal of software installed so …
Missing Python.h in Arch I use Arch Linux. I want to compile a C++ file that includes <Python.h>. But I can’t do it. In Debian based systems this problem is resolved with sudo apt-get install python-dev. How I can install this package with pacman? * EDIT * I wan’t to compile this file C.c #include …
Arch Linux pacman specifying package version I know that I can define wanted package version in pacman like shown in its manual pacman -S “bash>=3.2”. But how do I know what versions are available? I also know that pacman is creating copy of mirrors upon syncing in .db files in /var/lib/pacman/sync/, but those files are …
Pacman -Syu fails `/bin exists in filesystem` I was trying to upgrade my arch linux with pacman -Syu after having returned from vacation and now I get this error that I cannot quite make sense of: (133/133) checking for file conflicts [######################] 100% error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files) filesystem: /bin exists in filesystem …
Recommended way of installing python packages on Arch What’s the recommended way of installing python packages on Arch? Searching for them on the AUR and installing them from there (or create a PKGBUILD file to make a package yourself) or using pip? I started off by installing stuff from pacman and the AUR and don’t …
Should I restart after a pacman upgrade? after running sudo pacman -Syyu or sudo pacman -S [something to install] should I restart just to be safe? Asked By: ahtmatrix || Source If there are updates to the kernel, glibc or systemd, you may want to restart so the updated versions are in use. If you …
Arch linux : pacman does not work when chrooting I have Ubuntu installed on my computer. I decided to install Arch linux, but I skipped the part about Grub installation as it is already installed. Seeing that Arch does not show up in Grub’s menu list, I decided to install it in Arch. I mounted …
How to recreate a package file from installed package? I used yaourt to successfully build and install an AUR package, unfortunately missing the fact that in its default configuration the built package is removed after installation. Since the build took around 24 hours and having the package available for later might be useful, is there …
See end-nodes of dependency graphs I’m using Arch Linux, with its Pacman package manager. I want to keep my system as clean as possible, and that includes not having any unused packages installed. But, because of dependencies, it’s not a trivial task to have zero of such, at least with my level of knowledge. Is …
Pacman option to assume "yes" to every question? When installing software in debian systems we can put something like this: sudo apt-get install -y chromium-browser that way the installation occurs automatically, whitout asking to confirm installation [Y/n]. Can i do the same with pacman? Asked By: JohannRamos || Source From man pacman: –noconfirm Bypass any …
Check for updates of packages installed through yaourt Is there anyway to update package installed with yaourt ? yaourt -Syu seems to do the same as pacman -Syu, which only care about package in official repository. Asked By: daisy || Source You can update your system including AUR packages with: yaourt -Syua https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Yaourt Answered By: …
Can I make pacman aware of packages installed manually? Due to my setup I cannot make use of pacman to actually install packages, however if I install a package from the Arch repositories manually by downloading and extracting it, eg: wget http://mirrors.kernel.org/archlinux/core/os/x86_64/curl-7.26.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz tar -Jxvf curl-7.26.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz -C / …is there a way to make pacman aware …
pacman-key –init takes too long and does not exit I have installed Arch Linux on my system and now when I try to install something using pacman, it gives me an error that the key ‘xxxxxxx’ was not found. I Googled and found out I should have run pacman-key –init. Now when I run pacman-key …
