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? and I updated the database manually just a few minutes before reading this to make it surely sure I don't have any "out-of-date" database...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)