Talking Arch instalation: alsa-utils doesn't install

Talking Arch instalation: alsa-utils doesn't install

[Nick G]

Greetings.
    On an old machine in school, I decided to install Arch Linux while the rest of my Unix class was installing FreeBSD on a virtual PC.  I was almost finished, trying to make sure it would come up talking, but doing this threw an error, which I can't remember, but something about a non-existing alsa-utils package.
pacman --root=/mnt --cachedir=/mnt/var/cache/pacman/pkg -Sy alsa-utils speakup espeakup 
This followed the guide to the letter, though I had no need to edit the pacman.conf file, or at least that's how I saw it, as I was still working from the CD.  What did I do wrong?
Thanks,
Nick
 
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Re: Talking Arch instalation: alsa-utils doesn't install

[Chris Brannon]

> 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

Re: Talking Arch instalation: alsa-utils doesn't install

[Nick G]

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
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> 

Re: Talking Arch instalation: alsa-utils doesn't install

[David Csercsics]

You could try doing pacman -Syy instead of -Sy. The extra y forces the
mirrors to update and there were out of sync and out of date mirrors
recently so maybe that will help. It should have worked though.

Re: Talking Arch instalation: alsa-utils doesn't install

[Chris Brannon]

> 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?

You could try chrooting into /mnt.  If you do that, you can exclude
the --cachedir and --root options.

If you can use a cellphone, you might be able to call me during the process,
for assistance. I'm leary of giving the number out over the list,
but it's available to anyone who asks me for it via private mail.
I'm not sure how useful this would be, either.
Thanks to my VOIP provider, calls to anywhere in the US and Canada are
unmetered.  Outbound calls are good.

Anyway, it should have worked...  It has for several others in the last
few weeks, so something isn't right.

-- Chris

Re: Talking Arch instalation: alsa-utils doesn't install

[Alonzo]

when installing archlinux via the talking i nstaller... I do
pacman --root=/mnt -Sy alsa-utils speakup espeakup etc...
That always worked for me.
----- 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 8:58 PM
Subject: Re: Talking Arch instalation: alsa-utils doesn't install


>> 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?
>
> You could try chrooting into /mnt.  If you do that, you can exclude
> the --cachedir and --root options.
>
> If you can use a cellphone, you might be able to call me during the 
> process,
> for assistance. I'm leary of giving the number out over the list,
> but it's available to anyone who asks me for it via private mail.
> I'm not sure how useful this would be, either.
> Thanks to my VOIP provider, calls to anywhere in the US and Canada are
> unmetered.  Outbound calls are good.
>
> Anyway, it should have worked...  It has for several others in the last
> few weeks, so something isn't right.
>
> -- Chris
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> 

Re: Talking Arch instalation: alsa-utils doesn't install

[Chuck Hallenbeck]

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
> >_______________________________________________
> >Speakup mailing list
> >Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> >
> 
> _______________________________________________
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> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup

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