a broken package, cannot RE-fetch?!
ok, here it goes...
I updated my system some time ago...got a codecs package, fetched it, and was unable to install: checking package integrity... error: archive codecs-20040916-1.pkg.tar.gz is corrupted well, I thought it's ok, let's just clean the thing and get it all over again to see if it works. a stupid idea..after I did a cleaning for the package and tried re-getting it, I simply got the same thing again. there's no such package on my HD anymore, and I've cleaned the package database with pacman -Sc a few times, so my sense says pacman should get the package from an ftp-site and install it. no? no - it just tries to tell me the package is on my HD (it isn't) and that it's corrupted and cannot be installed. now what am I gonna do? I need those codecs since some of the videos I've recorded with my friend of us doing some mad tricks are coded so I cannot view them right now :/ (the cam is my friends' and he's got an XP so the videos are wmv and so on..) well, how would I basically make the annoying package go away and get it again? ideas? and where exactly do the packages reside on my HD after I've fetched them...can't seem to locate them... |
Packages are in /var/cache/pacman/pkg, delete it and retype command.
Change mirror too. :) |
geeze I think it works..I'll see in a second when my package is fetched :) thanks. just wondering why doing a
locate pkg.tar.gz didn't give me that dir/those files? huh? :o and I updated the database manually just a few minutes before reading this to make it surely sure I don't have any "out-of-date" database... well, thanks a lot for pointing the dir. I guess I just missed that since I tried finding some clue of it from pacman's manpage...didn't hit it. perhaps it was there but I just didn't saw... :P (feeling stupid..hehe) |
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