From: Chuck Hallenbeck <chuckh@ftml.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: Talking Arch instalation: alsa-utils doesn't install
Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2009 04:56:58 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091202095658.GA30653@rx.localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <527FFC77670B41EFA3FFD9E043869790@Martijn>
Nick,
In addition to what David and Chris suggested, you might try entering
exactly that pacman command omitting the names of the packages, thus
forcing your package archives to be updated. Then repeat the command
with the package names added. I seem to recall that I had to do that at
one point, in one of my installations.
Chuck
On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 09:06:13PM -0500, Nick G wrote:
> Yes, the instalation was mounted on /mnt. The error was something
> about package not found.
> Anything you can suggest I do non-standard when I go back in on
> Thursday? Chroot, for instance?
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Brannon"
> <cmbrannon79@gmail.com>
> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 01, 2009 8:36 PM
> Subject: Re: Talking Arch instalation: alsa-utils doesn't install
>
>
> >>but doing this threw an
> >>error, which I can't remember, but something about a
> >>non-existing alsa-utils
> >>package.
> >
> >Yes, that command looks fine to me.
> >The alsa-utils package is in the extra repository, and you shouldn't have
> >had any trouble installing it.
> >pacman should have pulled it from your chosen mirror with no complaint.
> >Your installation was mounted on /mnt, right?
> >
> >I should really automate that part of the process, because that command
> >is fairly complex.
> >
> >-- Chris
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