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[arch-general] Manpage(s) exist in filesystem
by Attila 17 Aug '08

17 Aug '08

Hi, since some days during a "pacman -Su" i get the message that some man pages exist in the filesystem and the upgrade stops. The crazy thing was that it was even a manpage from the package which gets upgraded. Because it was even only one or two files i delete them and run the upgrade again. But today with tcl there was too much files to ignore it.-) So i want to ask here if anyone has had the same problem or do i miss something what i have to configure? It is not realy a problem for mine because now i will do a de- and a reinstall (i like this more than forcing it with "-f") of this packages but perhaps there is a better solution. See you, Attila

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[arch-general] system upgrade not working
by Sentinel 15 Aug '08

15 Aug '08

Hellou, I ran pacman -Syu two days ago on my arch and got a message, that pacman has found a new version of it self. So I upgraded pacman. After issuing the command pacman -Syu again I get the folowing error. root@sentinel:/home/sentinel# pacman -Syu <output ommited> :: Starting full system upgrade... warning: firefox: ignoring package upgrade (2.0.0.14-1 => 3.0.1-2) warning: ruby: forcing upgrade to version 1.8.7_p72-1 warning: vlc: forcing upgrade to version 0.8.6i-3 resolving dependencies... looking for inter-conflicts... error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies) :: linux-uvc-svn: requires kernel26<2.6.26 :: virtualbox-ose-additions-modules: requires kernel26<2.6.26 I tried pacman -S kernel26 -f, but did not help, the same error. Could anybody help? I did not find any bug report about it the arch site. Thnx a lot for your answers! Tom

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[arch-general] Anyway to revert back to KDE 3.5.9? (Don't Panic)
by Nigel Henry 15 Aug '08

15 Aug '08

Some days ago I ran the updates for my Don't Panic install, which said that KDE 3.5.9 was being upgraded to KDE4. I let this go ahead having asked on the list if there were likely to be any problems with KDE4. I also have recently installed Fedora 9 which comes with KDE4 as default, so this is not a pop at Archlinux, but more with KDE4, which I'm finding is virtually unuseable. I'm posting this from Fedora Core 2, which has KDE 3.2.2-14.FC2.2.legacy Red Hat, and apart from the odd konqueror crash when accessing certain web sites, there are no problems. KDE4 is a whole different ball game. The question is, is it possible to somehow revert back to KDE 3.5.9 without reinstalling. Reinstalling would mean that I only have the package versions that were on the install cd. I do have another instance of Dont Panic, that hasn't been upgraded to KDE4, and all the updates prior to the upgrade to KDE4 are available, and looking at /var/cache/pacman/pkg there don't appear to be any KDE updates until the transition to KDE4. If I do have to reinstall this instance of Don't Panic that has been upgraded to KDE4, is there some way to prevent the upgrade to KDE4 on the fresh install? Apologies if I'm offending anyone that loves KDE4, but I'm finding it a real problem to work with. Any help on this problem really appreciated. Nigel.

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[arch-general] problem with the new b43 module
by metin 14 Aug '08

14 Aug '08

hi all, I am having trouble with the new b43 module for my bcm4318 pci wireless device. I can connect to the internet without a hitch but the connection drops unexpectedly and randomly even in good conditions near the wireless modem after a couple of minutes or so; and it won't connect to the internet again automatically. I tried ndiswrapper with the same consequences. The interesting point is that the deprecated module bcm43xx worked flawlessly, but was removed from the updated kernel 2.6.26. I desperately need help!

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[arch-general] Kudos to the kdemod gang
by w9ya＠qrparci.net 12 Aug '08

12 Aug '08

Hey gang; I wanted to voice my appreciation to the kdemod folks for doing things the "Arch-way" and giving choice back to the user-base by creating the kdemod-legacy repo and packages. It is nice to see such a group doing something that is both worthwhile and definitely needed. AND it is nice to finally have something positive to say after kde4 was transfered from the testing to the "main-line" repo(s). Further, I am impressed that the kdemod group seemed to have seen through some of the rhetoric about how good kde4 is and prepare something for those of us that actually use the features of kde since kde1 that are missing or inoperative in kde4. (AFTERALL the kde folks are still maintaining kde3 so the idea that has been discussed on this e-mail reflector; that kde4 is the ONLY kde environment "officially sponsored", is specious.) Very best regards; Bob Finch Liviu Librescu - În veci pomenirea lui. (May his memory be eternal.)

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[arch-general] Sending files to printer question
by richard terry 12 Aug '08

12 Aug '08

This is not Arch specific, but I'll ask anyway in the hope someone will help. I have generated a html file which would show in a web-browser and hence will print from the web browsers print button. However I want to send that file directly to a printer from the command line, but have the output as if I'd sent it from the webbrowser, not just print the output of the text which is the HTML. I wondered if there was a command line utility to do the conversion. Thanks in anticipation Richard

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[arch-general] packager sometimes missing in arch's web interface
by Adam Vogt 11 Aug '08

11 Aug '08

I'm wondering whether it is a bug that [1] and [2] don't claim to have maintainers, but they actually do. If the web interface doesn't know of a maintainer, can it still send the maintainer an email that it is outdated (which is the case for [2]), of which a build for a newer version can be found at [3] [1] http://www.archlinux.org/packages/testing/i686/glib2/ [2] http://www.archlinux.org/packages/testing/i686/bitlbee/ [3] http://github.com/Pnevma/config/tree/master/Builds/bitlbee

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[arch-general] running sybase under arch linux
by Scott Weisman 11 Aug '08

11 Aug '08

Hello everyone, I've got a big problem I hope someone can help with. I've been a huge fan and user of Arch since early 2004. I really like it and it works great for me. I have several production servers also running it, with no problem whatsoever. However, I have one ancient server running a creaky version of Red Hat Linux that I would love to replace, but can't. This is running Sybase 11.0.3.3, and I simply can't get it working on my replacement server. First of all, for those who are shaking their heads, this is a legacy server dating to 1998. Second, I had nothing to do with the original design. Third, I hate Sybase. Even though a free version has been available for years, it is absolutely hostile to Linux in general. It needs a very specific configuration or it simply won't run. And good luck figuring that out, unless you use one of their supported configurations. My new server is running Arch x86_64. I have no choice about this. I have the old 11.0.3.3 RPMs and extracted them to /opt/sybase. I installed the following packages: local/libstdc++5 3.3.6-2 local/emul32-compat 1.0-3 local/lib-compat 1.4.1-1 No matter what I try though, I get segfaults when trying to run Sybase. Has anyone had any success getting ANY version of Sybase running on Arch? Please let me know if you have, or if you have any suggestions at all! VERY much appreciated. Thanks, Scott

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[arch-general] PKGBUILD problem Can't exec "aclocal":
by richard terry 11 Aug '08

11 Aug '08

I wonder if anyone can help me trace how to fix this error message: Can't exec "aclocal": No such file or directory at /usr/share/autoconf/Autom4te/FileUtils.pm line 326. autoreconf: failed to run aclocal: No such file or directory which seems to be holding up one of my PKGBUILDs which does in fact compile on my laptop, but now won't on a new machine, so I'm obviously missing something. Thanks.

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[arch-general] Arch linux shirt
by Ryan M. Clough 10 Aug '08

10 Aug '08

Hey guys, I jsut ordered a fitted, black large size Arch shirt from the zazzle store, and didn't realize until it was too late that I ordered a large when I am actually a small. The order hasn't even gotten to my house yet, but I'm willing to resell the shirt untouched for a fraction of the price so that I don't have to waste my money (completely) on getting another one. Hope someones interested :/

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