a package manager used in the Arch Linux distribution.
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How to add a program to be indexed by Synapse?
I downloaded the IntelliJ community edition and I'm currently running it by clicking the shell script that is in the folder of IntelliJ
I was wondering how I can make Synapse recognize the idea.sh ...
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What exactly is PKGBUILD and should I edit it when installing packages?
Whenever I use yaourt -Syua in my Manjaro Linux system, it'll give me
Edit PKGBUILD ? [Y/n] ("A" to abort)
and sometimes
Edit chromium-pepper-flash.install ? [Y/n] ("A" to abort)
Somewhere I ...
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How to install Ruby 1.9.3 on Arch?
The wiki suggests using $sudo pacman -S ruby1.9 but the package isn't there... I'd rather not compile it from source but I can if no one knows.
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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?
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ArchLinux pacman updates on Arm
I have ArchLinux embedded in userspace on my Samsung Series 3 Chromebook. The version of GCC I have installed via pacman is 4.7.2. I'd like a newer version, and the package database here shows that ...
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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 ...
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Arch Linux: How to ignore certain packages for certain repositories using pacman?
I have an unofficial repository called haskell-core. I want to blacklist every haskell package in extra and use the packages from haskell-core instead. I don't want to use haskell packages from extra ...
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Arch Linux: “error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)”
I'm trying to install an Arch system, and every time I run pacstrap /mnt base base-devel I get
error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
filesystem: /mnt/lib exists in filesystem
==> ...
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Adding Arch Linux's repository to Manjaro
Is it safe to use Archlinux's repository within Manjaro Linux installation?
If it is, all I need to do is just add some line to /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist, right?
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How to copy the output of pacman-color into a file and to display the output with the colors in the terminal
Originally I used pacman, not pacman-color and I copied the output into a file and I displayed the output in the terminal with the following command :
pacman -Syu | tee file.log
Unfortunately, it ...
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How to retrieve an installed AUR 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 ...
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How to see which pacman updates are major?
I like to keep track of what's on my system and what is getting updated. However, there's a lot of tiny updates, e.g. gedit 3.6.2-1 to 3.6.2-2 that I don't want to think too much about.
Is there a ...
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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 ...
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ArchLinux failed to install libproxy for invalid signature
The following message is from my terminal :
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...
Targets (1): libproxy-0.4.7-2
Total Installed Size: 0.29 MiB
Proceed with installation? [Y/n] ...
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List optional dependencies with pacman on arch linux
I'm using arch linux.
Is there a way to list optional dependencies of all installed packages? And if yes, can I filter this list to see only the missing (not installed) packages?
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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 ...
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How can I find and install pacman-color or cope?
I'm using Arch-Linux and I'm trying to install something that colors the text in the terminal (xterm), but not necessarily just for xterm. It would be nice to find something for text without ...
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Arch Linux - Is it possible to instruct pacman to install certain packages into a specific directory?
I want to install a set of software organized into directories at the root level.
Is there any method in which I can use pacman to install certain packages into a directory of my choosing?
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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.
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Finding out how many programs I have not installed from a list with grep/awk in archlinux
I want to see how many packages from a list are not installed. I use archlinux, so I use pacman -Q to determine if a package is installed. If it is not installed, it returns a message like: "error: ...
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Cannot Compile Apache: “Error, SSL/TLS libraries were missing or unusable”
Arch Linux 2011.08.19 (Linux 3.4.2 i686)
Apache 2.2.22 → 2.2.22 (recompile & reinstall)
OpenSSL 1.0.1.c-1
These details are likely irrelevant, but: I’m using yaourt with customizepkg to build ...
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How do I run my native `pacman` against a mounted image?
I have read and followed Is it possible to update, upgrade and install software before flashing an image?. I managed to mount the official Arch image, synchronise the database and update the ...
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Arch: can't use pacman: error while loading shared libraries
I just finished installing Arch and setting up my wireless connection. I wanted to install additional packages so I tried using pacman.
But with every command I use I get the following error:
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How do I use pacman on a loop-mounted Arch image for a different architecture?
I would like to install some packages on an ARM image before flashing it to an SD card. So far, I have loop mounted the image
sudo mount -o loop,offset=99614720 archlinuxarm-13-06-2012.img /mnt
and ...
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Arch Linux: Yaourt/Makepkg Can Not Build Apache
I am using yaourt to automatically compile Apache from source every time there’s an update available from extra. I am doing this so that I can have a custom suexec docroot (/srv/www rather than the ...
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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 ...
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pacman-key --init takes too long and does not exit
First, I am new to Arch Linux. 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 ...
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View notes for certain package in ArchLinux without package removal?
I've installed couple of packages and forget what they recommended. Now i want to view their notes, recommendations. Only way i know how to do this is remove it and install it again:
# pacman -Rdd ...
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Pacman Full system upgrade failure
I'm trying to do a full system upgrade using pacman on ArchLinux. I have kernel 3.2.
When typing sudo pacman -Syu
I got the following errors
:: Synchronizing package databases...
core is up to date
...
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Arch: Is “SigLevel = Never” the only convenient way?
The only way I can install majority of packages without rejection from signature database is to put SigLevel = Never in pacman.conf.
Its not supposed to be the right way, but I don't seem to be able ...
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pacman could not find database
I want to install sudo. So I type in pacman -S sudo. But then I get the following errors:
warning: database file for 'extra' does not exist
warning: database file for 'community' does not exist
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Pacman Full system upgrade ask for replacing packages
Every time I do a full system upgrade pacman ask me the same question :
tarting full system upgrade...
:: Replace mga-dri with extra/libgl? [Y/n] n
:: Replace r128-dri with extra/libgl? [Y/n] n
:: ...
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Pacman could not find gnome-system-tools ArchLinux
I tried to install gnome-system-tools on ArchLinux using pacman .
I've run pacman -Syy before but pacman could not find the package.
Here is my pacman.conf file
#
# /etc/pacman.conf
#
# See the ...
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How do I get pacman to use my custom PKGBUILDs when updating?
I customized a PKGBUILD for Apache, ran makepkg and installed it with pacman -U httpd.tar.xz, which worked fine. A few months later I upgraded my system with pacman -Syu which used the system-default ...
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Where are temporary files used for installation stored?
Where are installation temporary files stored by pacman in Arch Linux?
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AUR and pacman GUI frontend for Arch
Do you know any good GUI for pacman and arch? Where I could view packages installed and possible to install? And of course do anything as in pacman.
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Arch Linux: Newbie's problem just in the installation process(bug like)
I go through AIF (installation framework) till "Install packages". In that step, I get the error:
error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files) and then follows the list of every single ...
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`Pacman` rollback or fixing a disappeared KDE taskbar?
I upgraded my ArchLinux installation yesterday and one of the packages affected was KDE. After restarting, the taskbar has disappeared and I have found no way to make it reappear. Is there a mirror ...
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Error updating all ArchLinux packages with -Syu
I am on Arch Linux with Kde.
I haven't updated the packages in a while and I'm having a problem while trying to do so:
The first thing I tried was: sudo pacman -Syu as the documentation says, and I ...
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Some M4 macros don't seem to be defined
I am trying reinstall pacman on my Arch Linux distribution. When I run the configure script "configure.ac", I get a bunch of undefined macros:
error: possibly undefined macro: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE.
If ...
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Arch Linux with Xfce-Desktop no longer starts
I run Arch Linux with XFCE. Recently, I decided to switch to PCmanfm as my file manager. I removed Thunar with:
pacman -Rc thunar
and rebooted. Now when I try to log in, my XFCE4 desktop flashes for ...
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In Arch Linux how can I find out which package to install that will contain file X?
I'm looking for a package that provides a specific binary, so I can install it. how can I search to find out what packages provide this binary? (note: I know there's at least one tool that does this, ...
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Update only one package with pacman
Is there a way to update only selected programs in pacman?
I'm running ArchLinux on my netbook, and the complete upgrade of my system takes up more temporary space than I have on my system, so I'd ...
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Arch Linux: pacman cannot be upgraded because pacman version is too high?
This seems a bit like an April Fools' joke, but this is what I was greeted with this morning, when trying to bring my Arch up to date:
:: The following packages should be upgraded first :
pacman
...
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How do I force remove a package in Arch with pacman?
How do I force remove a package in Arch with pacman while other packages still depend upon it.
pacman -R perl-libwww
checking ...
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Arch Linux: python and python2 are in conflict
I've recently installed Arch Linux onto my primary (Ubuntu) computer, and it is working really well for me. It's fast, configurable, basically a faster version of Ubuntu.
Since compiz-fusion isn't ...
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Package management strategy with Pacman
Since I switched my favorite distro to Gentoo I have been very familiar with the following pattern for installing and removing packages:
Install a bunch of applications that do pretty much the same ...
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Internet(ADSL) connection doesn't seem to be working on Arch
I've already set up ADSL and used it already for a system update, so I'm sure the set up is ok but pacman suddenly stopped working and when I checked ping wasn't working too. How can I find out what ...
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pacman and powerpill not working
Both pacman and powerpill don't seem to be working on my Arch installation. I'm sure my Internet connection is working. The download just starts in powerpill but speed remains zero. In pacman, there's ...
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How to delete a file in Arch console?
pacman stopped working and asked me to delete a file if "another package manager isn't working". What is the file for deleting files?
